Fabbed up a hook for keep the RH cable out of the shifter for the up and over the frame lower rail route. The cables could get into the mufflers on ally-ooops on the roadways, where you come up off of the road...but it will be a momentary thing...but running them under the mufflers was less of an option where the cables would be in constant contact with every bump an axle hit! The lesser of two weevils!
Used some scrap 16 guage steel from a project that I was working on for work... and came up with this.
Looking around under the chassis revealed a great spot that this will mount on. The inner a-arm mounting bolt!!
Now the RH cable looks like this at rest:
LH cable looks like this only a little better after I took the picture. Some upwards convincing of that retaining bracket out at the caliper, and loosening the caliper bolt and rotating the bracket a tad, got the cable out of the front of the muffler! AND yes, I did tighten the bolt down....really good!!!
I hit the new bracket with some primer and paint, and will mount that up tomorrow or Sat once it cures real well!
What remains is to play with the adjustment to relax the parking brake mechanisms, and then someday..... deal with the long primary cable....to do something else with it....rather than use it as fishing line for road garp!!!
Ciao!
Steve