Rear Parking Brake Cable

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Paul Garza - 12 May 2005 19:13 GMT

Does anyone know how do disconnect the rear parking brake cable from the
rear backing plate on a '66 coupe with rear drums?

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Dinsdale - 12 May 2005 19:50 GMT

>Does anyone know how do disconnect the rear parking brake cable from the
>rear backing plate on a '66 coupe with rear drums?

If it's like my '65, you have to compress those spring-loaded
fingers...or tines...or prongs to get it out of the backing plate
right?
On one side I was lucky and used a small screwdriver to push one tine
in at a time while I was pulling on the cable and it came out. The
other side I used a small hose clamp around the tines to compress them
at the same time. Someone once told me a box-end wrench would work
too.

DP
Pics of the cars:
http://tinyurl.com/d2q9u

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carl - 13 May 2005 06:32 GMT

i ended up getting pissed on my '68 and replaced both rear brake cables.
i had no luck using screwdrivers and/or pliers to collapse the 3?
fingers. you might try going in with a series of box end wrenches or
like was just said, deep sockets to close down the fingers so they will
fit through the hole

>>Does anyone know how do disconnect the rear parking brake cable from the
>>rear backing plate on a '66 coupe with rear drums?
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> Pics of the cars:
> http://tinyurl.com/d2q9u

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Big Al - 14 May 2005 08:45 GMT

>i ended up getting pissed on my '68 and replaced both rear brake cables. i
>had no luck using screwdrivers and/or pliers to collapse the 3? fingers.
>you might try going in with a series of box end wrenches or like was just
>said, deep sockets to close down the fingers so they will fit through the
>hole

Hose clamp.

Al

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