Emergency brake cable grommet

[jimbosride]

I looked on the board and only found one old thread on installing these grommets.

Still not clear, How do you stretch it to go around the cable fittings?

 

[pnora]

Lube and stretch it.

 

[dadsbee]

With the metal insert and lock tabs, I wish you luck!

Band saw..

 

[pnora]

Parking Brake Cable Removal

 

[BigFlo]

Replacing the Parking Brake Cable Grommet

One of the tabs on the original is broke. I've got a new part but how do you get that cable loose so the part can go over it? I pried the end piece out of its bracket, but this fastener that holds the cable to the parking brake assembly doesn't want to budge. How does this thing come loose?

www.forbbodiesonly.com

I wrote up part of what’s in that link. If you need more details, let me know

 

[440 4 speed]

Electricians have these black grommets that come apart. I got one from an electrician friend years ago. Worked very well. Might be able to reconstruct what I did.

 

[jimbosride]

Electricians have these black grommets that come apart. I got one from an electrician friend years ago. Worked very well. Might be able to reconstruct what I did.

Let me know if you have any luck. What I got will not work.

 

[BigFlo]

You’ll be surprised how much that grommet with stretch. Use socket wrench extensions, adapters and sockets to gradually stretch it to the diameter needed to clear the flange.
Start with a 3/8” extension - lube it and slide the grommet up to the wide end. Then use either a 1/2”adapter snapped into the end of the extension, or a socket. The idea is to get the grommet on a socket that has the same diameter as the flange so you can slide the socket over the cable - and butt the socket against the flange and slip it over the flange. It make take several combinations of ever increasing socket sizes to do this. If everything is lubed and you work the grommet up in diameter, it should work. It may take a few tries.
Something like in the photo below. I’m showing a wire sticking thru the sockets, simulating the cable. Good luck!

 

[440 4 speed]

Let me know if you have any luck. What I got will not work.

I didn’t read it correctly.I mistakenly thought you were referring to grommet on the the park brake release handle rod.