I'm doing my D250 brakes with D350 shoes/cylinders.


When I took it apart, the cable doesn't look like it was connected at all to the lever arm. How does it connect? Looked in the FSM and I need a picture.

Seems like I need a retainer or something..????

Michael

 

This should help.
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=emerg...t:429,r:14,s:8

 

There is a little round metal retainer that locks the barrel end of the cable to the lever...Mark

 

What Mark said.

It's sheetmetal clip that falls off, and disappears. I had the same problem until I bought a new cable and understood just how it attached.


T.

 

There is a small retainer. It looks more like a cap that slips over the stop on the end of the cable. Here's a closer look at how the parking brake cables attach to the lever. This is the axle I went through from my '91.5 before I put it under my '90. The previous owner of the '91.5 actually drilled 2 small holes in the end of the lever on either side of the notch the cable locks into. With that he (and i), used a short length of metal wire to ensure the cables don't slip out as they commonly do.