I had removed my parking brake cables years back, when I found them being mangled by the exhaust...when suspension was full on or off....(ie no load, up in the air), so I have only a partial idea of how they were run at that time.....I need youse guys to help fill in the blanks, but also, take a look at how I have run these, or propose to do so....and provide feedback!
I do not recall, but the way I ran them here has them BOTH going up and over the lower frame rail. I can't say if this was the way they were, but the paths to the parking brake mechanisms is pretty straight.....without kinks perhaps is a better way to say it!
I'll start with the LH side, since it is the shortest, and easiest to route!
View from top, angled from the rear:
Plenty of room in front of muffler and over the top of the inlet pipe:
View of both cables from bottom rear view:
(That brownish looking stain on the bottom frame rail, to the rear of the cables, was caused by a piece of the rubber that I used for muffler hangers, when I put a thin piece of it on top of my jackstands to prevent damaging the paint.....well the paint is intact, but it's color is now off!!! Oops!)
View of both from center rear towards left:
Same view from camera elevation a couple of inches lower, gives you a good idea of LH cable route from frame at front to where it curves up and over the top of the frame rail:
Now let's move over to the problem side. View from LH side over towards the right. You can again see that there is space in front of the muffler and above the inlet pipe:
Here is the potential problem area.... over the top of the lower frame rail, under the shifter, across the top of the center of the frame crossmember, and out to the third picture above (under the bellhousing and lower left chassis rail:
I fear the shifter rod getting tangled with the cable housing! I want to come up with some means to use the second hole from the right in this picture to pull the cable housing down such that it stays away from the shift linkage. A through bolt and a metal hook of sorts that would hold up to the massive pressures exhibited by a parking brake cable!
What I would like to understand, is how are your cables running? Do you have interference issues, non-operational issues.....other problems?????
I know there is at least one hook for the RH cable on the front of the lower chassis crossmember, but I cannot say that it should be used........it would suggest a much more complicated path for the cable to run....such that contact with the starter cable and tigher bends are of concern!
I fab'd up this parking brake cable from an old Pantera cable that I bought at a swap meet. I had it the same length as my original, but the routing was not working....and when I tried to get a new cable made, in order to get the small brass housing ends off, the shop cut the cable in half. Only after he made the new one did I realize that I had asked for it to be made too long..... I could never get muffler clearance I was happy with, nor could I get the cables to stop pulling the parking brake pads onto the brake rotor! So, I took the new cable off too...... Now I use the pieces of the modified Pantera cable to show how it all would look! I will need to make a new cable about an inch longer in length from what I previously specified my cable length was! The housing lengths seem OK. We'll see!
One last question: How are your front parking brake cables (up to the handle in the cabin) secured to the chassis, to keep them from flopping about and getting hung up on things??????
Ciao!
Steve