White GTE Parking Brake
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Every time I take the White GTE out for a test drive I make mental notes of things I’d like to fix or adjust to make the car better or safer, and one thing I wanted to look at was the parking brake.
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The emergency/parking brake is operated by a cable and has a lot of adjustment points that can cause it not to work. After going over each adjustment, I found the cable was just too long to allow the brake handle to actuate the parking brake.
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The solution was to physically shorten the cable by cutting some of it off and brazing on a new anchor.
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I took all the slack out of the adjustment points, checked and double checked how much cable I would have to cut off, and made my cut. Taking too much cable off would mean I would have to replace the whole cable, so I wanted to make sure I got the length right. It ended up being about three inches of length I cut off before I brazed on a piece of steel I fabricated for an anchor.
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When everything cooled off, I reinstalled the cable and made my adjustments for a properly working parking brake!