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Parking Brake Installation (Con't)

I had a few hours Saturday to try and finish up the parking brake cabling. I had the single cable routed and the split box fabbed but I needed to route the two cables back to the rear calipers and mount the box. I pulled the box out of the vinegar bath that was stripping off the mill scale from the metal and cleaned it up and drilled two mounting holes and shot it with some black primer.

While the primer was drying I set about routing the two cables from the calipers forward. So I pulled the wheels off and rigged the cables in the GM metric calipers and it was apparent that I would eventually need to further cut the inner rear wheelwells to clear the cables. I had cut them earlier to clear the calipers and now I need to cut them even more. Luckily I had only rough-cut them before with a plan to pretty them up once the body was back off the frame so at least it wasn't an additional step backward.

With the cables routed forward, I settled on mounting the split box right behind (actually next to) the air tank on the bottom of the frame. I marked the two mounting holes on the frame and welded in two 1/4-20 bungs on the frame to mount the box to. Once the box was in place then I had to cut the cables and sleeves to the correct length and install the split fitting. I thought I had some aluminum sheet around to make the cover but I must have used it elsewhere so I'll have to make the cover on down the road....so this is where I will leave it for the short term.

Next us, routing the hard lines for the brakes front & rear. I bought some nickel-copper line to use. That should be a ton easier than the stainless line I used on a previous project.