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Re: Brake cable

To: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
Subject: Re: Brake cable
From: Charley & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 10:11:43 -0500
Hi Bob,

  Thanks for the reply.  What I'm looking at now is whether I have the
right cable or not.  Had to take the adjustment up all the way to make
the handbrake work.  It has been suggested that I may have the cable for
disc wheel insteads of wires.

  CR 
  '69 B

Bob Howard wrote:
> 
> Charley,
>   I replaced the cable in my GT on Saturday. No bushing in there that I
> could see, but the cable end (abutment stop---whatever they call it) did
> rotate slightly when I pulled the brake off and on a few times. I
> tightened it up when it was in the position that it seemed to like best,
> just a slight angle down from horizontal so that it lined up well with
> the cable.
> Bob
> 
> On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:07:43 -0500 Charley & Peggy Robinson
> <ccrobins@ktc.com> writes:
> >
> >  I replaced the brake cable in my B last week.  Only car I've ever
> >owned in which you have to remove the passenger seat in order to
> >replace
> >the brake cable.
> >
> >  Did you say that there was a bushing in the hole where the front
> >housing stud goes thru the floor?  Is the end of the housing supposed
> >to
> >be free to rotate?  Mine doesn't but I may have overtightened the nut.
> >
> >
> >
> >  Charley Robinson
> >  '69 B
> >
> >

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