Technical Parking Brake Lever

I connected a “HONDA”-barffff-to a 9” Ford E-brake cables to a 53 Chevy Belair. The main thing is I have a working E-brake on the car. In my teen years I parked my 56 Chevy in the driveway. It kicked out of gear in the middle of the night, rolled down the driveway, wiping out the side of my brother’s Ranchero. The Old saying- “Opened a can of worms”- no, we opened many cans of BONDO!!!!!

 

Look up #14067132. Used in alot of vans like P-30s. Suitable for floor mount as well and has adjustment knob on end of handle.

 

The best e-brake I ever had was the stock one mounted behind the transmission variety but I can't figure out how to adapt one.

 

This looks to be made like an old Postal Jeep I drove for many years.

 

Is the release the rear (well, forward, as mounted in your pic) half of the handle? As in, you squeeze the two sections of the handle/lever together and it releases?

I would agree that the cowl/side mount style parking brakes are ideal for most smaller vehicles like Model As and Bs, and you don't have an obtrusive lever sticking up between the seats that way, either.

 

Mine was not really creative, but about $20 from Amazon. I tried to adapt a number of OEM from the wrecking yard, but ended up with this.

 

The release is the part that's facing the driver. You just pull in the handle with your fingers to set the brake and squeeze to release. Beautiful smooth ratchet action with great leverage and totally out of the way.

 

I just walk around the local late model wrecking yard and look inside various cars. I look for parking brakes that aren't going to look out of place first, then once I find one I look at how they're mounted 2nd. Some are just not suited to mounting on a flat floor, or the cable routing wont work without major work.
I don't worry about housings, or boots as I've got a commercial sewing machine and I sew up something after I have it all working.

 

Thanks for the clarification, it makes sense now that I look at it again. It's a great solution, and being era-appropriate makes it even more appealing IMHO. Nicely done.

 

I don't know what it's original application was, but it works. Release was chromed. I think it was in a box of stuff I bought at an auction.

Gary

 

I got one off of ebay for I believe a BMW, I liked it because it was thin and set up higher.

I think it will sit high enough so that it will be just below the top edge of the seat between the bucket seats, easy to get to incase of an emergency and easily seen should I set it and later forget I had it engaged.

 

I decided to fab my own using a standard floor type unit, a few pics. Glen

 

Thanks for all the ideas ! I have very limited space and fabricated a sheetmetal console swooping into an arm rest and have very limited space but trying to do a clean look. Has anyone ever tried a locking P.T.O. cable with a pull knob ?

 

I got rid of the mech cables and did a manual line lock in the rear. I don’t trust cables anyway. Works great, but I live in flat south Florida with no hills. I used the JEG band with a t handle

 

Thanks for the suggestions. Wanted a mechanical parking or can we say emergency brake in case of hydraulic brake system failure. Keep the ideas coming !

 

Picture of my 33 Chevy interior with console and lack of space shown for conventional parking brake lever.

 

@Doug G what kind of transmission are you running?

Your car likely has a flat-ish floor like an early Ford, maybe running an A lever mounted off of a bracket on the trans could work for you? This is what I did in my car: