Project "Chihuahua" '65 Formula S Restoration "Estilo Mexicano"
Update: Parking Brake Conversion. Went to a single cable on the driver's side that later ABodies employed from the factory, in part because the TTI exhaust on the passenger side interferes with that passenger side cable somewhat.
What was normally a two minute job turned into a two hour job--installing the two spring clips that secure the two rearmost parking brake cables in the bracket that is welded to the underbody. The smaller clips in the conversion kit (photo #1) would not pass over the slot in the cable, no matter how much pounding or pressing or pushing I enabled. The larger original factory clips where almost as stubborn, but I was stubborn even over and above them (photo #2).
I can't explain the difficult installation problem; in the past a tap with a hammer or using leverage of a longer flat blade screwdriver usually coerced the clips to slide into the spot they belong.
Update: Parking Brake Conversion. Went to a single cable on the driver's side that later ABodies employed from the factory, in part because the TTI exhaust on the passenger side interferes with that passenger side cable somewhat.
What was normally a two minute job turned into a two hour job--installing the two spring clips that secure the two rearmost parking brake cables in the bracket that is welded to the underbody. The smaller clips in the conversion kit (photo #1) would not pass over the slot in the cable, no matter how much pounding or pressing or pushing I enabled. The larger original factory clips where almost as stubborn, but I was stubborn even over and above them (photo #2).
I can't explain the difficult installation problem; in the past a tap with a hammer or using leverage of a longer flat blade screwdriver usually coerced the clips to slide into the spot they belong.