Aspire Conversion E-Brake Cable Question...

[Safety Guy]

On my first conversion on the Mutt, I used my original Festiva e brake cable and managed to get it hooked up to the Aspire brake drum actuators. I had to pull the ebrake ends out of the axle brackets and then with a lot of cussing and stretching, I made them reach.

Going over bumps, that car "jangles" from the cables whacking the axle parts.

I have an Aspire cable set I'll use on Luxstiva this spring.

However, isn't there some way we could fab up an "extension" or two that would provide the last two inches or so of reach from the cable ends to the drum brake actuators? Wouldn't we need only one per car, since the brake cable self-adjusts from side to side?

We should be able to find some sort of link to work in this application.

Karl

[PaulLehr]

Just use the cable from a 2 door Aspire. That's all I did and it worked perfectly.

[Safety Guy]

Yep, I know. It's just that unless you run across one with the interior already half-disassembled, it's a PITA to take out. Then it's a PITA to take apart your own interior and put the Aspire one in...

A little doodad that would hook up your Festiva cable properly would be real nice. It'd save up to an hour or more of work.

The one Aspire cable I did take out was from a car that had most of it's interior apart anyway. So I jumped on it!

Karl