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Emergency brake

Emergency brake
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dalenelson

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Looking for some help as where to locate an emergency brake on my 1975 CJ5 - Full fiberglass body. I have everything up to the crossmember and the tee bar. Maybe a floor mounted one. i don't know if the body would hold up to a foot mounted drivers side brake.????? Any ideals
 
This weekend's project is installing a Lokar handbrake on my '73 CJ5 for the same reason the JF guy did. This thing didn't come with any of the e-brake hardware and I'm getting stuck with trying to keep the cable hooked to the bracket inside the rear drum. The Haynes manual isn't much help either. Does anyone have a picture of theirs or can direct me to how this goes together inside? Thanks in advance.
 
Nomad127 said:
This weekend's project is installing a Lokar handbrake on my '73 CJ5 for the same reason the JF guy did. This thing didn't come with any of the e-brake hardware and I'm getting stuck with trying to keep the cable hooked to the bracket inside the rear drum. The Haynes manual isn't much help either. Does anyone have a picture of theirs or can direct me to how this goes together inside? Thanks in advance.
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there should be a spring right on the cable coming thru the backing plate. Pull it back and slip it on the 'hook' on the ebrake lever in the drum...

check HERE for a pic. go to the supplements at the bottom, select group 8, then when the PDF opens, scroll down to page 15. there is an exploded parts view of the emergency brake system.
 
mylittlecj5 said:
there should be a spring right on the cable coming thru the backing plate. Pull it back and slip it on the 'hook' on the ebrake lever in the drum...

check HERE for a pic. go to the supplements at the bottom, select group 8, then when the PDF opens, scroll down to page 15. there is an exploded parts view of the emergency brake system.
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That's a great resource! It's that spring on the end of the cables inside the drum that I'm missing. I ordered two new cables but neither came with those springs and I don't see them listed anywhere else. Do you know where I can find them?
 
I may be able to strip them off an old set in the shop, but I won't be back up there for a few days a least...
Honestly I've never taken the springs off a set of Ebrake cables, so I don't know if its possible. lol I guess we will find out!
 
Nomad127 said:
That's a great resource! It's that spring on the end of the cables inside the drum that I'm missing. I ordered two new cables but neither came with those springs and I don't see them listed anywhere else. Do you know where I can find them?
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I was just going through bins of old parts two days ago looking for my stock pitman arm...

Found bags of old brake parts, and I am 99% sure those parts were in there. Currently the bag is in a trash box I hadnt gotten around to actually TAKING to the curb..

I'll look and let you know what I have.
 
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I dont know if you want it, but I found the bag of springs and parts from a stock setup from a 79 CJ7 .... Probably all the same parts.

I can send you the whole bag of loose parts if you like...It has been sitting on a shelf for 10 years, so if I havent needed them by now................................

lemme know

brian
 
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