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parking brake cable, conduit fingers
In the rear drum brakes where the parking brake cable enters the brake shoe and lever area, I am showing a close up picture of the fingers the conduit grips the entry hole with. I would like to remove a good cable from one truck and install it in another truck that has a bad cable assembly. I am reading the Haynes manual what it says about these, and I can't find mention of them in the Chevy service manual or Chilton's manual. Haynes says to compress the conduit fingers and withdraw the cable assembly. It sure sounds easy and I did this job once before about 5 or 6 years ago and I don't remember having difficulty then. Is there a trick to compressing the conduit fingers, preferably all at one time, and then the cable assembly will come out?
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Re: parking brake cable, conduit fingers
Use a hose clamp to compress the tangs and it will slide out .
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Re: parking brake cable, conduit fingers
Have you tried a small hose clamp?
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Re: parking brake cable, conduit fingers
what I did was.....
use a flat head and a hammer and bang each tab in that you can see, on the other side is a hex nut that you can put a wrench on. turn it with a wrench until the next tang shows and bang that one in too until they are all depressed... then you can pull through. hose clamp sounds so much easier though lol
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Re: parking brake cable, conduit fingers
It ended up working with a hose clamp. I had to try several times. Thanks very much for those ideas.
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Re: parking brake cable, conduit fingers
There's the Lisle 40800 that works well.
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