Clamps for connecting parking brake cables?
Thanks for all of the input here, guys!
The deal is that the new disks with internal parking brake (Ford Exploder pieces) don’t have the ball ends on the cables. They’ll need to be cut to length...so I’m looking for the easiest/reliable way to connect the stock cables to the new ones.
What’s up with the price on these!?
How do they make the connection on a Ford Explorer?
Seems like that would be the thing to figure out, if it’s good enough for Ford it should work fine for you.
Either that or you’ll need to have a custom cable made. Although honestly that shouldn’t be all that expensive, and it will look a lot cleaner.
Do you guys really not use your parking brakes? The only time I deliberately don’t used them is when the car will be sitting for long periods...On perfectly flat surfaces.
It’s just a good habit, IMO.
I always use mine, and all of mine work. They’re super simple, if they don’t work it’s an easy fix no matter what the problem is. At least with stock parts and drum brakes anyway.
With my cars if the emergency brake isn’t set the wheels are chocked. Everything that I drive has a working emergency brake, the projects are mostly chocked either because of the time they’re sitting or incomplete brake systems. But even on those I like to have the e-brake working because it makes moving them around a lot less exciting since not all of them have fully working brake systems.
And on that note- there’s a reason they used to be called emergency brakes. I don’t like that new cars call them a parking brake, although I guess if they’re electronically controlled they probably run through a computer that will keep them from being used in an emergency anyway. Or run off of the same hydraulic system which makes them useless in a hydraulic failure. Not everything from “back in the day” was the best way to do it, that’s for sure, but some things really were done a certain way for a reason.
