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I installed MS's rear brake kit, using 2014 Mustang GT brakes. I finally got around to mating the original parking brake hardware to the new brakes. These are the cables I used (BR3Z-2A635-B) which fit 2005-2014 Mustangs:
I used the black plastic end at the caliper because it fit without modification and the other end almost fit the body brackets (just had to drill out the hole). I also removed the bracket and moved it forward and also moved the foam sleeve forward. Here's a picture of the installed cable, which I routed under the axle:
I used a couple of rubber-lined hold downs attached to the leaf spring brackets by a couple of bolts to hold the cables in place:
My car is an early 65 in which the parking brake cable is routed under the subframe. I originally tried to use the stock outboard bracket, but it positioned the cable to far outboard and it contacted the tire:
To remedy this, I repurposed the bracket I removed from the new cable, attached to a stock hole in the subframe, which moved the cable more inboard so it cleared the tire:
Here's a picture showing the cable coming out of the subframe and going forward to the body bracket:
The new cables fit almost perfectly into the factory body brackets using the original clips - I just had to open up the holes in the body brackets a bit to 11/16". I used the original cables after removing them from their original housings, retaining the forward ball end, and cutting them to length. I swaged a new ball on the other end and made a couple of cable connectors:
The car isn't a runner yet so I can't really test it out, but it seems to work very well.
Last edited by jkordzi (5/18/2015 8:25 PM)
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Nicely done and that's a very clean bottom side.
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Looks great. What did you use to do the swedging?
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MustangSteve wrote:
Looks great. What did you use to do the swedging?
Thanks. I used single shank ball ends I got at Grainger:
These are 1/8" and the original 65 cables are 5/32" so I drilled them out. I backed them up with an 1/8" end terminal
I got at Home Depot (also drilled out to 5/32"). I used a hand swaging tool I picked up at Home Depot to swage on both the ball ends and the end terminals:
I pulled the hand brake as hard as I could and left it set for a day and the swaging held.
Last edited by jkordzi (5/19/2015 7:19 AM)
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That worked out real nice. I like your cable connectors.
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Jkordzi when I get back from Afghanistan I would like to bring my 65 fastback over and compare your brake set up with my nonexistent ones. Plus I want to see your baby up close.
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That is sooooooo clean. I think a little re-work is in store for mine.
Thanks for the links.
BB
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Mochaman wrote:
Jkordzi when I get back from Afghanistan I would like to bring my 65 fastback over and compare your brake set up with my nonexistent ones. Plus I want to see your baby up close.
I'd be honored. But my car is far from done. Still have to finish a few mechanicals and do the body work and paint.
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Bullet Bob wrote:
That is sooooooo clean. I think a little re-work is in store for mine.
Thanks for the links.
Hey yer welcome.
BB
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Thanks for posting the links on the swedge parts and tool. I had thought about those but was concerned about tensile strength. It is always nice when somebody else does the testing for you! Now it looks like I need to go spend a few bucks! Although my cable clamps work just fine, I never liked the look. You can never tell when someone is going to crawl way under there and take a look!
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I installed MS's rear brake kit, using 2014 Mustang GT brakes. I finally got around to mating the original parking brake hardware to the new brakes. These are the cables I used (BR3Z-2A635-B) which fit 2005-2014 Mustangs:
I used two, which I think are for the left rear. Here's a picture of the one of the new cables near its new home:
I used the black plastic end at the caliper because it fit without modification and the other end almost fit the body brackets (just had to drill out the hole). I also removed the bracket and moved it forward and also moved the foam sleeve forward. Here's a picture of the installed cable, which I routed under the axle:
I used a couple of rubber-lined hold downs attached to the leaf spring brackets by a couple of bolts to hold the cables in place:
My car is an early 65 in which the parking brake cable is routed under the subframe. I originally tried to use the stock outboard bracket, but it positioned the cable to far outboard and it contacted the tire:
To remedy this, I repurposed the bracket I removed from the new cable, attached to a stock hole in the subframe, which moved the cable more inboard so it cleared the tire:
Here's a picture showing the cable coming out of the subframe and going forward to the body bracket:
The new cables fit almost perfectly into the factory body brackets using the original clips - I just had to open up the holes in the body brackets a bit to 11/16". I used the original cables after removing them from their original housings, retaining the forward ball end, and cutting them to length. I swaged a new ball on the other end and made a couple of cable connectors:
The car isn't a runner yet so I can't really test it out, but it seems to work very well.
How did you go about making the connectors? I really like what you did! I guess I'm going to have to make a trip to HD. When I had my 3" exhaust installed. The parking brake assembly had to be temporarily removed due to the cable clamps I was using. This may just be the solution I need!! Well done!
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Kristang wrote:
jkordzi wrote:
The car isn't a runner yet so I can't really test it out, but it seems to work very well.
How did you go about making the connectors? I really like what you did! I guess I'm going to have to make a trip to HD. When I had my 3" exhaust installed. The parking brake assembly had to be temporarily removed due to the cable clamps I was using. This may just be the solution I need!! Well done!
I made the connectors from some 1/8" steel that I bent in a vice. I used a drill bit as a mandrel to make the curved parts. After the ends were bent, I drilled holes to accommodate the "T" from the new cables rearward, and the shank of the ball ends that I swagged on at the front end. I cut the slots just wide enough to accommodate the parts that were being slipped through them - thinner for the front end, as only the cable had to pass through.
I've been thinking that another alternative to swagging on a ball end would have been to revise the front end of the connector to incorporate something like a cable thimble like this:
so that the front cable could be wrapped around the thimble and then joined with a cable U-bolt. The U-bolt could either be permanent or replaced with a swagged connector after you were certain of the length.
Last edited by jkordzi (5/26/2015 6:49 PM)
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jkordzi wrote:
I installed MS's rear brake kit, using 2014 Mustang GT brakes. I finally got around to mating the original parking brake hardware to the new brakes. These are the cables I used (BR3Z-2A635-B) which fit 2005-2014 Mustangs:
I used two, which I think are for the left rear. Here's a picture of the one of the new cables near its new home:
I used the black plastic end at the caliper because it fit without modification and the other end almost fit the body brackets (just had to drill out the hole). I also removed the bracket and moved it forward and also moved the foam sleeve forward. Here's a picture of the installed cable, which I routed under the axle:
I used a couple of rubber-lined hold downs attached to the leaf spring brackets by a couple of bolts to hold the cables in place:
My car is an early 65 in which the parking brake cable is routed under the subframe. I originally tried to use the stock outboard bracket, but it positioned the cable to far outboard and it contacted the tire:
To remedy this, I repurposed the bracket I removed from the new cable, attached to a stock hole in the subframe, which moved the cable more inboard so it cleared the tire:
Here's a picture showing the cable coming out of the subframe and going forward to the body bracket:
The new cables fit almost perfectly into the factory body brackets using the original clips - I just had to open up the holes in the body brackets a bit to 11/16". I used the original cables after removing them from their original housings, retaining the forward ball end, and cutting them to length. I swaged a new ball on the other end and made a couple of cable connectors:
The car isn't a runner yet so I can't really test it out, but it seems to work very well.
On your third pic down where you used the insulated clamps to hold the cable, did you just drill through the leaf spring brackets?
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Yes - just drilled through the leaf spring brackets.
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Tnx!
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I searched every salvage yard within 75 miles and not one of them had a 05-14 Mustang with the rear cables that I could grab the brackets off.
Some internet searching turned up these possible alternatives. I'm going to pick up one or both of these and use them to keep the cables off the wheels.
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Chaplin wrote:
I searched every salvage yard within 75 miles and not one of them had a 05-14 Mustang with the rear cables that I could grab the brackets off.
Some internet searching turned up these possible alternatives. I'm going to pick up one or both of these and use them to keep the cables off the wheels.
If you're talking about the clamps that hold the parking brake cable onto the leaf spring pads, they're just rubber insulated cable clamps like this:
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I am talking about the brackets that you mounted to the frame rail shown in your 5th pic.
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Recently I had the T5 out for a gear change/rebuild and so I took the opportunity to address a minor issue I was having with my E-brake setup: In order to have enough play in the cables to be able to engage the pull handle more than a couple of clicks, my cables would have had to lie loose on my exhaust. To remedy this, I made a couple of tabs that I pop riveted to the floor pan to which I connected springs. The cables are held up out of the way by these springs. When the E-brake handle is pulled, the springs stretch a bit as the cable go taut. Below are a couple of pics. The first is looking from the rear forward while the E-brake is engaged (spring stretched):
The second is the same, except the E-brake is not engaged. The spring is relaxed, but still holds the slack cable up and away:
The third is a close up of the bracket and spring while the E-brake is engaged:
Note my driveshaft is an aluminum one I got from an Explorer at the pick and pull and it's bigger in diameter that stock. The E-brake cable misses it by about an inch but I'm thinking about welding extensions to the bracket that ties the two cables to the one that goes up to the handle to spread the cables out further.
Last edited by jkordzi (6/07/2019 4:57 PM)
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I know that post is several years old and involved some really nice work.
At some point, I figured out the original drum brake cables fit the 2005-2014 rear discs without any modifications other than welding a cable housing stop to the top of the outer axle u-bolt. This vastly simplifies installing the 2005-2014 rear discs on a 65-73 Mustang.
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