parking brake cable, conduit fingers

[dmjlambert]

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?

[Grumpy old man]

Use a hose clamp to compress the tangs and it will slide out .

[Getter-Done]

Have you tried a small hose clamp?

[kev2809]

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

[dmjlambert]

It ended up working with a hose clamp. I had to try several times. Thanks very much for those ideas.

[68 P.O.S.]

There's the Lisle 40800 that works well.