E-brake cable repair

[DuritzCrows17]

I did an Aspire break swap off of a 97 2 door Aspire onto my Festiva and I did not get an e-brake with the Aspire swap or with the Festiva when I originally bought it. I recently got a Festiva e-brake and its in known good working condition however when the person removed it he failed to unscrew the rubber hangers that hold part of the e-brake mechanism to the i-beam and instead cut them leaving half of the rubber hanger attached to the i-beam and leaving the e-brake without the full rubber hanger on each side. My question now is can I just drill new holes in the rubber that is still intact on the e-brake mechanism or was the rubber length specific? Also I heard that people had problems using festiva e-brake cables after they swapped to an aspire break upgrade. Is there any truth behind this and if so am I still gonna be effected even though I got my i-beam and such off of a 2 door aspire? If there is going to be a problem what is the common fix and what all needs to be changed in order for it to work? Below I have 3 pictures I took to show the rubber hangers on the e-brake mechanism and how much is left on each side (about same length left on each hanger). Thanks in advance guys.

[DuritzCrows17]

come on guys, somebody must have my answers.

[Dave G]

Try drilling holes and splicing them together - sounds like a plan to me :-)

I don't think the length is critical - it just needs to be able to float so that an equal pull is applied to both wheels.

[skeeters_keeper]

the cable should work (although i used the aspires), and the length of the rubber should be OK, but your e-brake might work better on one side than the other if the center piece can't move far enough.

also, your pics aren't loading for me, but that might be b/c i'm @ school.

[poisonousbeef]

Not to whore your post but if that cable happens to not work out with your swap I'd buy it. Good luck getting it to work just the same!

[Safety Guy]

The rubber hanger lengths shouldn't be critical. Add and splice what you must to mount them securely on the beam.

As for the e-brake hookup, fab a connector from a cut off Festiva brake cable. I posted some directions somewhere on here lately. I think I said to use an Aspire cable end, but I think it's a Festiva cable end you need to cut off. I'm not sure now!

Karl