Awesome video!! I used up about an hour trying to get the end of the cable out of the drum area with no luck. Your tip of using a 13mm box wrench to slide over the end of cable was an excellent idea. I tried it and it worked perfectly. Not sure why I didn't think of doing that, but thank you for that great idea!
Great video! Nobody else has videos on the old Dodge’s. All my old cables had rusted, so I wasn’t sure how to route them. Do you know where you can buy the Dodge brake equalizer? Mine is 1992 W150, but it looks just like yours. I’ve wasted hours of my life looking for this! LMC doesn’t have much for old Dodge.
kgchomes thank you, I just looked and I can’t find one, but the summit racing tech line is very helpful, and worse come to worse you can contact Lokar.
Should of just saved yourself time and the hassle and just bought all new cables. 160 dollars for both rear cables and a new parking brake front cable with the foot pedal with it. I just replaced it all. That’s a problem in the future once they get rusty and beat like that
@@GSEShop BTW, wish you would have shown how you got that lever back onto the e brake cable. Took me about 2 hours to solve the puzzle on driver's side, and still took a while to get it to go on passenger side.
@@GSEShop Actually, it dawned on me later last night that I should loosen up that brake cable adjuster before I put mine back together. My springs over the e brake cables look a lot tighter than yours.
@@GSEShop Still was difficult, even after tightening the e brake adjuster way up and realizing I was going the wrong way, and when I loosened it almost all the way out to the end.
How would you re-install the "finger" thing if you wanted to reuse it ? I purchased new cables, installed and the cable slid right through the finger spreader thing. Is the "finger" clip somehow welded onto the cable or is there another way to fasten it to the cable ?
The finger thing is crimped on. If it fell off or is loose I would attempt to re-crimp it, or take it to a hydraulic shop to see if they could put it back on. Be careful though, their labor rate may be higher than a new cable
Need a reference to where everything goes back together? Take a picture before you take it apart. Edit: never-mind. You mentioned this was in the Chrisfix video.
in some circumstances the parts are not available, or could be out of reach for someone's finances. Or if you are removing them to repair something else, and there is nothing wrong with the cables, it may make sense to save them.
@@GSEShop yeah, but you weren't saving them. You were replacing them. I just did an axle swap in a dodge ramcharger and cut the old rusted cables out. It was all junk nothing worth saving except the hard parts the cables connect to. It saves a huge amount of time not trying to unbolt rust. Time is money.
