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The emergency brake cable pulled away from my right rear wheel.
Does anyone have a good picture or diagram or explanation of where and how the ebrake cable is attached through the backing plate. This is the only diagram I see in the shop manual.
The cable goes into a big hole in the backing plate at the front lower corner, if you will. It is retained by some little spring loaded fingers attached to the end of the cable housing, and a ball on the end of the cable hooks into the lever that works the crossbar that applies pressure to the shoes. See the lower right of this pic, parking brake cable housing retainer.
I don't see the little fingers I described and is pictured above. Maybe you have a different kind of retainer I'm not familiar with? Even if some fingers broke allowing the cable to come loose, (which I have seen happen) the remnants should be there. It'll be interesting to see what you find.
The cable is only serviced as an assembly, as far as I can tell. The important thing is to make sure the retainer (with fingers) didn't split and fall into the drum. If it gets between the shoes and the drum, it will get expensive. For the quick fix, you can use a hose clamp as a retainer, but it will need to be tight.
The cable is only serviced as an assembly, as far as I can tell. The important thing is to make sure the retainer (with fingers) didn't split and fall into the drum. If it gets between the shoes and the drum, it will get expensive. For the quick fix, you can use a hose clamp as a retainer, but it will need to be tight.
Yes! I have also used a hose clamp on a car I had back in the day - worked fine... Question is why did cable pull out? Maybe hit a twig or something? Unless something pulled on it there is no reason for that to happen. When you operate park brake it pulls it tighter. On my truck cables are so tight that if the cable retainer clips were broken it would prolly still stay in. I have a extra cable assembly but would rather keep it, but If you want to replace it I might fix you up. but I'll bet it is available thru MF or somewhere. Let us know what you find.
As far as I could tell it was. No picture of the end of the cable. The fingers of the clip were all intact
I was able to push it back in place.
Still no ebrake. There must be slack in the cable. When I had the wheel and drum off I pulled the ebrake handle and the clip stayed in place. But I could tell the handle pulled up too easily.
I am not sure about aftermarket cables. The original cables had two designs. One has the fingers and one has a horseshoe clip on the inside.
just a tip for the fingered type, tough to get back out, but a small hose clamp to compress the fingers back through the hole works well for removing them.
