• Hi Guest!
    If you appreciate British Car Forum and our 25 years of supporting British car enthusiasts with technical and anicdotal information, collected from our thousands of great members, please support us with a low-cost subscription. You can become a supporting member for less than the dues of most car clubs.
    There are some perks with a member upgrade!
    **Upgrade Now**
    (PS: Subscribers don't see this gawd-aweful banner
Tips
Tips

More 1500 questions

Share this page

regularman

regularman

Yoda
Country flag
Offline
I worked on getting the car some brakes today and it has a good pedal but the shoes are all cover in axle grease. I will deal with that another day. Front brakes are good and it stops the car.
Anyways, the car has the E-brake removed and this has been a PITA working on the car. In the pile of junk that came with the car, there was the E-brake cable and housing, etc. and I found the two rods that go out to each wheel. I go to mount it up and there is no mounting ear on the differential like my 71 has. How does the E-brake work on the rubber bumper midgets? I am confused :frown:
 
There where two different versions. It sounds like you have the version where the cable draws the two rod end together. It "floated" behind the axle and was held in place by a bit of rubber (like on a muffler hanger)
 
Moss part number 331-670. I just put one in my 79 1500. Worked like a charm.
 
I don't have the right thing. Here is the deal, I got this 77 with most of the parts for it, mixed in with a bunch of parts from a early 60s midget. I got the E-brake cable and rods from the early midget and its the same as my 71, but its not right for the 77 because there is no mounting ear. I also have a rubber bumpered 76 model over in a field (parts car). I might have to take the E-brake off of that one if its any good.
The haynes manual didn't mention another type of E-brake. I figured it was something like this.
 
The plot thickens. I see there is a different part number for the cable on the later type if the car has wire wheels. I have a set of wire wheels that I was going to put on this one. Hmmn. Perhaps I should just weld myself a bracket on the diff and use the older setup.
I wonder what the purpose for changing it was?
 
Back
Top