<VV> Parking Brake Cable question - too short ?

[Daniel Monasterio]

It doesn't  change the length, just make installation easier. Don`t know how short the cable looks... 1-2" ?. After installing the ball end go underfloor and tight cable, by hand, to the rear while pulling the rear cable clamp against the threaded end. If the new cable is the right length, this will be easy. If it is short... change it.

Daniel Monasterio

From: Chaz at ProperProper.com
To: dmonasterio at hotmail.com; virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Parking Brake Cable question - too short ?
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:10:30 -0700










Just curious, but how would that change the length 
?
 
~Cz

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  Daniel 
  Monasterio 
  To: Charles Lee ; VirtualVairs 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 7:01 
  PM
  Subject: RE: <VV> Parking Brake 
  Cable question - too short ?
  
Think you are working backwards. You should start at the ball 
  end, first.

Daniel Monasterio

> From: Chaz at ProperProper.com
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> 
  Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:42:17 -0700
> Subject: <VV> Parking 
  Brake Cable question - too short ?
> 
> Is the park brake 
  different for EM and LM ?
> 
> If so, is one shorter, and what 
  other visible difference is there ?
> 
> Problem : I just 
  installed Clark's cable, and reached into the bag for the 
> adjustment 
  nuts ? Aarrgghh....
> 
> I guess they figured we'd re-use the old 
  ones ? OK, but the old ones are 
> rusted tight to the old cable and I 
  can't get them off, so I'll just get 
> some new ones, right ?
> 
  
> To be certain that I got the right ones before walking a mile each 
  way, I 
> called Clark's to get the right size :
> The girl says 
  "5/16 24" so I hike over to the hardware store to get the two 
> (2) 18 
  cent 5/16 24 nuts that Clark's does not include (why not ?).
> 
> 
  So rethread the cable and wrestle with the 5/16 24's a while but no go, so I 
  
> rip the cable back out and take it with me this time (those pulleys 
  under 
> the dash are NOT fun !)
> 
> So I try a few more 
  5/16 24, but they're not 5/16 ***24*** !
> They're 5/16 
  ***18***.
> 
> OK, so back home and thread the needle again, - I'm 
  getting pretty good at 
> this, the third time.
> 
> Now, 
  the ball doesn't reach the handle under the dash, so I go down under 
> 
  and extend the nuts all the way to the end of the adjustment part on the 
  
> tail end to get a few more inches.
> 
> Still the ball 
  end does not reach.
> 
> Have I been short changed ?
> Do I 
  have an EM park brake cable ?
> 
> Or, am I missing something 
  (again) ?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your support !
> 
  Charlie
> 
> 
> 
> 
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