[ihc] RE: Parking brake cable lubing

["Shubin, Pete" <pshubin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have you ever thought of storing the cable in a piece of PVC pipe?  It cheap
and light and allows the cable to spin and keeps the grease off of
everything.  Pull the cable right out of the dash into the pipe and then
right from the pipe into the dash.

Just a thought.


-----Original Message-----

Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:08:06 -0800
From: John Hofstetter <hofs@domain.elided>
Subject: Re: [ihc] Parking brake cable lubing

At 10:35 PM -0800 12/8/03, Allan W. wrote:
>  > Why not just remove the inner cable and put grease on it as you slide
it
>>  back in?
>>
>>  -Ryan
>
>Ryan,
>   That works pretty good, but you don't end up getting much grease
>worked down to the tranny end with that approach. 
>
>Having done this on several different vehicles, I have to fill you in
>on how it goes (at least for me):
>Due to the end fitting, it must be done from the speedo end.  So you
>take the speedo out and one of the electrical pins pulls off the back
>as you remove the connector.  %#^@^(.  Now pull the inner core out.
>Its greasy and is like a snake.  Now you got grease on your shirt. 
>Oops, now it is on the seat. $^%@&$.  Dangit, now you dropped
>the core in the dirt!  #$%$#&. 
>
>OK, so now you clean the core up real nice.  Only, due to its
>construction, it's always greasy so anything it touches has a greasy
>line on it.  If you are thinking, you might coil it up in a plastic bag
>so it doesn't get all over the seat as you try to feed it back in.
>
>So now you start feeding it back in, slathering it with grease
>as you go.  Of course, it hangs up.  #$^@$#@.  Usually you
>can twist it and get it to continue.  Wait, can't do that with it
>in a bag.  So much for the smart idea...Get a helper to hold the
>end back along the side of the truck.  Now you start twisting
>as you smear grease on it and push past the hangup point.
>
>Eventually it goes all the way back in.  Now you can fix that
>broken electrical pin on the back of the speedometer.  Oh,
>you forgot about that and put it all back together?  Now
>some light on the speedo doesn't work right--%$&$#%&.
>Take it apart again to fix the pin.
>
>But how much grease really made it past the first 2 feet of
>housing?  Usually enough to make it turn better and get rid
>of the jumpy needle, but probably not much down on the
>tranny end.

Allan,

Have you been spying on me?

John

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John Hofstetter
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