caddy ebrake pics...

[RootBreaker]

Ok so I was looking at how I rigged my ebrakes up... they work...

however I noticed if I ever actually flexed my truck out it would yank the brakes... and even possibly rip something off!!!!!

super big pic is here...
http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/554136/original/brakes.jpg


I didnt weld a bracket or anything but need to..... may have to re-design something for the ebrake all together... but trying to get some ideas....

 

[buefchris]

did you route the cable above or below the leaf spring?

 

[RootBreaker]

did you route the cable above or below the leaf spring?

under the axle...

so it shoots from the frame... down and under the axle.....so articulate down and it will pull the cable...
I have not tested it yet..... but will eventually....

 

[dremu]

On my tow rig, I welded the end of the cable sheath onto the axle housing, and ran the cable under the axle around to the caliper.

http://www.slosh.com/ck5/subbie-parking-brake-cables-1.JPG

There is enough slack in the sheath that the axle can flex, nominally -- obviously with those spring packs she won't flex much

-- A

 

[dremu]

Now on my wheeler, the K5, I did a little nicer:

http://www.slosh.com/ck5/tankie-parking-brake-cables.JPG

Weird angle on the pic, I know, but same idea ... cable is routed under the axle, 'cuz that's where the lever is, but is snapped into a bracket welded to the axle frame and then has lots of room for the sheath to flex.

The key is, as I've posted before, to hold the sheath on front and back and have room for it to move. Looks like the back end of your sheath is just held in place by tension, so yeah, every time the axle goes down the brakes will come on and that's bad.

-- A

 

[RootBreaker]

obviously with those spring packs she won't flex much

-- A

my spring packs or yours are ya talkin bout???

man ill have to show ya some flexin.... eventually when I can get it out of the driveway... I can mash her on a curb and get .75" flex... BEAT THAT!!!!

 

[dremu]

my spring packs or yours are ya talkin bout???

man ill have to show ya some flexin.... eventually when I can get it out of the driveway... I can mash her on a curb and get .75" flex... BEAT THAT!!!!

LOLO. My towrig's got, I donno, like eight or ten leaf packs, with the overload up top and the rubber snubbers on brackets on the frame.

I mean, for a dually it's great, but yeah, for flex, no. It's all about load capacity, right?

-- A