Back to the parking brake situation!
I'm making my main rear cable 88" center to center of the end clevis holes.... I have a small roll of 3mm 17 strand cable....so...time to do it!
One of the guys here made me up a set of the end hoozits in brass just like the originals. They worked fantastic!
I got this amazing piece of toolage, from a friend for helping sell all of his various car collection. This is a swaging tool for aircraft cables...and anything else that may use a cable with a ball or sleeve type end.
It took a little bit to get it working right, as it is air powered, and it has been sitting around for a good part of 2 decades! Some air tool oil and patience and eventually it started rat-tat-tatting away!
Here is a pic of the progressive dies I used and the end result. I started with the die on the right and reduced the OD of the cable end, and then worked it in the smaller die on the left, to finish it off!
I routed the L & R cable ends as illustrated in above entries and fixed up the main cable from the front (it had jumped off of the pulleys).
The last couple things I need to address are fabbing up a hooked affair to hold the RH cable down out of the shifter linkage, and decide what to do for a helper spring on the main activation lever at the rear, on the underside of the chassis.
A question: Do you have some sort of spring holding this activator lever towards the rear to assist the cable returning to the "rest" position???? Where does it connect to??? (I have no holes.....in any brackets or the lever!
I am also considering some means to sheath the front cable such that it won't get hung up on road stuff...as currently, it just flaps around.........
Any really cool ideas on this one??????
Ciao!
Steve