Bracket Question

[hotrodder]

Today when I went to try and find the rear axle #'s on the Duster, which I didn't find, I noticed a couple of things. One, not revelant to suspension, was the dual exhuast stuff.... Two two brackets, which is the point of this thread. I saw two right angle brackets welded to the frame of the car where the frame turns upwards and goes over the rear axle. These two brackets are right across from each other on either side, it's got two holes in the brackets facing the rear axle. I was wondering what in the world these are for? I was thinking maybe a rear sway bar? But I don't recall the factory ever putting rear sway bars on these cars? I would post some pic's, but my digital camera takes picturs that are too big to post here.... I could send them to someone if interested that could resize them if that would help out any. I would like to know what these backets are for because they look factory, and I can't think of anything else they would be for, but like I said, I don't remember the factory ever using the rear sway bar.

 

[clhyer]

Leesburg, huh? I'm just up the road from you near Macon.
Shoot me a pic and I'll let me daughter resize it for you.
C

 

[hotrodder]

Leesburg, huh? I'm just up the road from you near Macon.
Shoot me a pic and I'll let me daughter resize it for you.
C

That's cool. I've been around the Macon area, had to go up to Forsythe for training. I'll send some pic's to ya for resizing. Also, I know someone up there in Macon, all I an think of right off hand is first name, so...

 

[hotrodder]

well, hopefully I can now post some pic's of the Duster. I'll go ahead and get these posted of the bracket, and post the rest on another thread.

 

[RPMLegends18]

I believe their for the parking brake cables, I could be wrong though.

 

['64 Cuda]

I believe they're for the parking brake cables, I could be wrong though.

That's what it looks like to me, too. The early cars use 2 short cables on the axle with a long cable crossing under the car to hook up to them. Later cars had 1 long & 1 short cable that join with the main cable on one side of the car. I came across this when I put a 1971 8 3/4 in my 64. I had to reuse my old short cables because the ones that were on the axle were different.

I gotta' laugh about it now, but back in 1975 I remember the guy at the salvage yard told me that if I took the rear end it was mine, no bringing it back, because his book didn't say it would work. I was 17 & my friends & I measured it 2 or 3 times & we could tell it was pretty much a bolt-in deal. That guy is still working behind the counter in that same salvage yard. My dad thought I should just replace the broken spider gears in my 7 1/4!

 

[hotrodder]

so what, the parking cable devides into two cables, attaches to the bracket on each side of the car, and goes to the brakes from there? Sounds kind of funky, then again... Just seems odd with that kind of setup.... I don't know, why I'm asking you all, lol. Anyway, so if this is, then does anyone have any pic's of the installed setup?

 

['64 Cuda]

I haven't stuck my head under there & looked for a while so I'm going off of memory, which you can't always trust at my age. The cable from the handle under the dash is hooked to the middle of a crossbar about 4" long, and has an adjusting nut where it attaches. From the 2 ends of the crossbar seperate cables extend back to the brackets in front of the rear axle where they attach to the cables on the rear end assembly. There. Now you know more than you ever wanted to know about it.

IMO the later setup is a bit better because you don't have a cable crossing under the driveshaft.

 

[RPMLegends18]

Tomorrow Ill try to snap some pics of my parking cable, its in a 74 Swinger. Just an idea of what mine like.

 

[MoparBrit]

That is the parking brake cable bracket. You will have one short cable and one long one to reach the passenger side. A single cable comes back from the front and hooks to them. Exact same on my '71 Swinger.

When I swapped rears over to an 8.25 I had to use the old cables because the '75 Scamp I got the rear out of had the later style as mentioned above which has the cables split at the front and one cable running down both sides of the car.

Cheers