My hose-plier is not a cutter, if that's what you're thinking,lol. It's just a needle-nose, with long handles, and the tips shaped to fit around small hoses,and then bent up at about 45*. It fits in there and around those tangs,like a glove. It's not perfect tho, sometimes one tang tries to escape the clamp-action; I just reposition the tips and try again.
I use that plier for a lot of things.
I have no tool capable of cutting those cables; well except the cutting-torch
Up here, our cars have to have a functional park-brake to "pass safety". But there is no retest for as long as you own the car. I went thru my stash of several cables to find a set that I thought might work, and then spent a good deal of time getting those 32 year old cables to work. And you know what, the only time that system was ever energized was by the tester, in 1999. So far as I'm concerned, it's just dead-weight. Kindof like the horn;it too I have never used. But,yes Sir, I'm street legal!
