you cannot replace part of a cable, and no need for special tools, simple things work fine, and anything under the drum is easy to remove if necessary to disconnect those cables, might have to remove a brake shoe is all, the cable end bolts onto a cross link bar between the 2 shoes

Bill

Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics