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My new ebrake arm

Discussion in 'Early CJ5 and CJ6 Tech' started by schardein, Jan 4, 2005.

  1. Jan 4, 2005
    schardein

    schardein Low Range Therapy

    Success, MO
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    Here is my new longer and properly cuved e brake arm. The original came on my park brake assembly which came from Ebay some years ago. Mine was completely missing. I believe it was from a flat fender.

    Herm hooked me up. I am trading the shorter one for it (part of a bigger deal we are working).

    You wouldn't believe the nightmare trying to get the other one to work. It involved GRINDING AWAY PART OF THE RUBBER CUSHOINED TRANNY MOUNT. Sad but true.

    Can anyone provide me pics of how the park brake cable is supposed to run? For that matter, what is the brake end of the cable housing supposed to connect to. I have a bracket on my crossmember that looks like it might be for it, but it is to big a hole and not positioned in the right place, of course my crossmember is not in the stock place because of the t18 swap.

    I will make it work, but would like to see a stock setup to use as a start point.

    Thanks for any help!
     
  2. Jan 4, 2005
    Hippo393

    Hippo393 Jeepless

    Charlotte, NC
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    Dang Greg you just helped me out. I've got the one that involves routing the parking brake cable to the right side of the tranny (the lower one in the first pic, I think?). Is that the arrangement you described as needing some grinding on the tranny mount? That's my setup on the Tux and I can't activate the drum brake with nothing for the housing to hook up to.

    There should be a correct crossmember bracket, and it'd be obvious if you have it. I do, just not the right lever arm, LOL. I'd take a pic of it but my farging 'puter can't upload fotos. :evil: I'll see if I can find a pic elsewhere. :beer:
     
  3. Jan 4, 2005
    schardein

    schardein Low Range Therapy

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    Glad I helped!

    Yes it had to come from the pass side to get the right angle. With the tranny mount right in the way I did some interesting grinding to get it to work.

    So I wonder now if you have that arm maybe it is right? My entire assembly was missing and a F4 and T90 swapped in when I got my Jeep so can't judge anything by what I had.

    Can anybody explain/post a pic of stock e brake cable routing for the V6?

    Also, I removed one of the bolts holding on my PTO cover plate on my T18 and put in a stud. This gave me place to mount a homemade bracket for the cable when I had it on the pass side. Right now it is not hooked up pending reinstalling the new brake arm, which requires removing the entire darn brake assembly, which requires removing the driveshaft and transfer yoke, etc! I also need to replace the xcase output seal and probably get a new yoke so it won't lube the brake with gear oil (not good for brakes for some reason). Plus I gotta figure out the routing.
     
  4. Jan 4, 2005
    181jeep

    181jeep Banned

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  5. Jan 4, 2005
    schardein

    schardein Low Range Therapy

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    According to that auction the shorter one fits a 3b.
     
  6. Jan 4, 2005
    jpflat2a

    jpflat2a what's that noise?

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    for your viewing pleasure, from the parts manual:
    http://community.webshots.com/user/jpflat2a
    click album: hand operated parking brake
    click: full size view for best viewing
    may take 30 minutes before viewing is possible (so they say)
     
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