Glen, I know my name ain't Frank but you sent the message to me anyway, so.
What I did was shorten the cable (not for the faint of heart), heat the end
with a torch till the solder in the end melts and push the fitting futher up
the cable. Then remove the little cone from the end of the cable, cut off
the amount of cable you want it shorter by and force the cone back in the
middle of the cable so it is inside the fitting and resolder. Like I said
not for the faint of heart, but worked for me. The only place you can put a
"slack adjuster" is in the tunnel. The one I had turned and was rubbing on
the driveshaft. , so if you go that way watch out for that.
Crash
-----Original Message-----
From Glen Byrns <grbyrns at ucdavis.edu>
To: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 20:34
Subject: Re: emergency brake
>Frank,
>In this case it is the original e-brake cable. The PO never worked on the
>rear end since he got it 30 years ago, and the cable was old then. I've
>checked the clevis pins at both ends, the entire mechanism from cable end
to
>brake slave lever is as tight as is reasonable. Its just too bloody long!
>Is the cable slack taker-upper a safe fix?
>
> Regards, Glen Byrns
>
>
>>Glen wrote:
>>>
>>> Even after a complete rebuild of the braking system on my bugeye, the
>>> emergency brake does not engage until the brake handle is nearly all the
>>> way up. I've adjusted the nut on the long threaded housing end until
the
>>> nut only has enough threads to hold. That is, it has all the slack
>>> taken up. It seems to me that the cable is too long by as much as 1".
>>
>>I won't ask where the cable came from but I went thru 2 in 2 years. Must
>>be Asian metal or something. I have found a couple of NOS cables from
>>Carlisle and have had no problems.
>>If you are buying them from 1 of the 2 big suppliers, put a cable slack
>>taker upper on it. This is all you can do.
>>
>>--
>>Frank Clarici
>>Toms River, NJ
>>Too many Sprites (again)
>>There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
>>http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut
>>
>>
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