SHOxtc94
New Member
Just wandering if a complete e-brake cable system from a 95 atx work on a 94 mtx. If this is a re-post i'm sorry
E-brake cable
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SHOxtc94
New Member
Thanks warduke
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fusion1620
SHO DWN
E Brake
Anyone relocate the E brake to the middle arm pull kind? Never liked the foot pedal....
Anyone relocate the E brake to the middle arm pull kind? Never liked the foot pedal....
SHO_DOODmorrris
Owner & Fanatic
DITTO
angelsmaybleed
shogun[914]
same here
platoribs
Live to Drive
I hear tell the Thunderbird ebrake can be adapted with a just a little swearing.
Probably have to swap the whole console but...
Probably have to swap the whole console but...
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SHO_DOODmorrris
Owner & Fanatic
lol nty
pjtoledo
'ol man in the SHO
the middle brake lever is complicated by the fuel tank. VW used to get around that with steel guide tubes attached under the floor, and seperate cables for left and right.
Storm-Chaser
New Member
Hey Perry - where have you been hiding ? ? ? ?
Well, you can go wandering in any car, not just a SHO. What a parking brake cable has to do with wandering, I don't know . . . . :angelnot:
Well, you can go wandering in any car, not just a SHO. What a parking brake cable has to do with wandering, I don't know . . . . :angelnot:
fusion1620
SHO DWN
Someone's used a Thunderbird e-brake b4. Might have to look into it. The VW method might also work, but would be more custom...
platoribs
Live to Drive
I stripped one of my Thunderbird SC's a couple of weekends ago and kept the E-brake handle assembly...maybe one day... far in the future... when cats and dogs are living in harmony:sun:
JEM
SHO Member
Me neither:
http://www.milleredp.com/gallery/v/jem/motion/SHO/parkingbrake/
I won't say the work involved is trivial, I still need to have a boot made up to cover the hole in the console (I've got a line on someone to do that work, just haven't gotten to it yet.) It also leaves an uncarpeted bare spot up on the kickpanel where the pedal isn't any more (that's also fixable, but hasn't been done yet.) I'll take more pictures when the boot's on, one thing that did change from these pix is that it was not necessary to cross the cables over on top of the tunnel, they'd happily tolerate the tighter bend radius to run side-by-side.
The goal was to stick with the Gen 1 console, and to locate the lever far enough forward and just to the right so that it would not impede access to the shifter, the storage bucket in the console, the radio, or anything else, and to find a 'periscope'-shaped lever assembly that'd require a hole of minimum horizontal length in the console (ideally no longer than the useless cassette box.) It's worked out really well. Really, really, really well. Even if the hole needed to be just a bit longer than that, it still hits neither the shifter cover nor the big storage box.
Slightly-modified late-'90s Saturn parking-brake handle and base assembly (the Focus has a lever that might be even better, but there were eleventy-million Saturns in the local pick-n-pulls and no usable Focuses), custom-made cables from these guys, a handful of WDG8 Adel clamps and some 3/8in blunt-point stainless screws from McMaster-Carr (there's nothing more annoying when working under the car than having the sharp point of a sheetmetal screw jabbing you in the arm.)
Almost the hardest part of the job was getting the rubber grommets for the holes in the rear floorpan below the seat where the cables go through; I used a couple of the grommets that Ford uses where the Taurus parking brake cable goes through the pan under the pedal. Of course, Ford won't sell those to you independently of the whole cable, and the local junkyards mostly put their jackstands right under that corner of the body. When I finally did manage to find some I could get to, I had to pull six or seven to get two that weren't torn up beyond usability. I've got this lovely razor-sharp Sandvik handsaw, and fortunately it'll saw parking brake cables and sleeves pretty easily (though it undoubtedly took some life off the thing doing so.)
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fusion1620
SHO DWN
Nice work. The pictures are great and give me a idea of what needs to be done. Thanks..
JEM
SHO Member
Nice work. The pictures are great and give me a idea of what needs to be done. Thanks..
If you're using a Gen 2 console and don't mind sacrificing the cupholder area you can probably put a handle further rearward and have it look pretty much original-equipment.
I've got more pix somewhere of the cable routing - you do need to pad around the cable along the floorpan, and the carpet on the tunnel and the back of the rear footwell end up 3/4in higher or so as a result, but it's not really noticeable in use.
The key is to use a handle assembly that provides for two separate cable runs directly from the handle.
