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Nah, it's just hodrodding. What I never thought was that I'd be able to buy parts for a 50 year old car. I would definitely rather have the factory style steel housing though but that's less important than having a parking brake in WV.

Still need to cut the excess cable but it works. The spring pops the pedal back up and everything. (y)

I'll use the original style front cable and run the rear kit cable housings from the backing plates/brakes to the mounting stop welded on the frame (in the wrong place). Then I will string the rear cables through, pull them and the front cable together and figure out how long the rear cables...

I think I got the brakes bled before running out of fluid ... the pedal's low but I don't feel any air so I might need to tighten up the shoes a little. I left them loose so it's easy to push. I'm done messing around with the parking brake cable. The bracket I made to move the housing stop...

Yeah I just wish things didn't hurt so much after a weekend installing parts. Garage-aerobics are going to be the death of me.

This weekend, I installed the brake pedal box and bracing, bench-bled and installed the M/C, finished routing the brake lines, adjusted the brakes, and started bleeding. I've got fluid to the end of the system but am still pushing air out. I used a tall bottle of brake fluid so far...

Well that didn't work, don't know why, and it doesn't matter. When I run the front cable, it's about an inch from reaching. If I move the cables forward an inch, the housing is too short. I also ran into this at the other end That hole in the frame is supposed to be small enough that the...

There's nothing worse than broken bolts/studs.

stupid welding mask doesn't work so I didn't get the part gusseted, but this is what it looks like: It needs some trimming yet. It has to be bolted in so it can be removed if I need to unbolt the front spring eye. I got that stupid shoddy pad glued in too

I glued the shoddy pad in place then made a Z shaped extension for the e-brake and now the cables are where they should be. It bolts to the existing cable stop, extends back 3", then offsets for the cables to mount. Drawback is it's just 16 gauge because that's the thickest you can get at a...

I'm still undecided on what I'm going to do - I don't want to weld on it - not yet anyway, and sure don't want to drill holes in what's supporting the spring eye. Also, the steel isn't flat 3" back so welding or bolting will be no fun. I could go ahead with the one longer cable idea - it might...

Now you've got me thinking about it ... the rear cable ends will be 3" forward of where the factory cables would meet the adjuster, so I have 3" less adjustability. The threaded end on the front cable is only 5" long. So the most adjustment I can take up, in a perfect world, is 2". That...

I thought about that, but as long as the cable housing and cable get longer by the same amount, the connection ends up in the same place. Since I want to add the same length to both the housing and cable, the cable outside the housing remain the same length. As long as the spring that covers...

The stop was moved 3" toward the front of the car and 1/2" or so toward the center of the car. I found a piece of fuel hose that just happened to be about 3-3/4" longer than the housing of the cable I have (26"). That fit fine between the stop and the backing plate and left some slack in it...

This shows how far off it is Note where the front spring eye bolt is in relation to the bracket Now look at it on my car I probably need an even longer cable than I was thinking. FWIW I found places that will build brake custom brake cables.

All I can say is a FSM might help but probably not. The engineers turned that mess over to the tech writers and they noped right out of it; "Disassemble as needed. Reassembly is reverse of disassembly" 🤷‍♂️ But seriously, the FSM should have at least some details that might come in handy...

I did that, still didn't fit, then I took a big screwdriver and opened up the slot a little bit and I'm your uncle. I have a bad habit of expecting new reproduction parts to fit right out of the box, but I know better. Now I need to find a solution to my e-brake cable problem. I'm going to...

A little more searching found a part for a Ford LTD that is 4" longer and the ends look the same but there is 9.5" difference between the housing and cable on the Ford but 11" difference on the b-body. It has to be the same *difference* between cable and housing as the b-body part or the cables...

The cable ends have to stick out equally. So I have to move the whole bracket back toward the rear end or find another piece of cable. Extra housing isn't a problem unless it gets to where I don't have room for it. I wonder how long a C-body cable is? (I found the housing length is 22.36 on a...

Was putting the rear shoes on and can't get them in place with the e-brake spreader bar in there for some reason. I bought the emergency brake parts from Brewer's. It's close enough to the same compared to what came with the backing plates. The spreader bar doesn't seem to want to slide all...