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URGENT!! Eldo Caliper Brake Cables

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ChuckMoney

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Ok Guys heres the deal. I just moved out to HI a few days ago and I have a VERY limited amount of time to get this vehicle to pass 2 safety inspections, one for being a modded vehicle, and one standard.

My truck has to have an E-brake to pass, as well as a bunch of other stupid crap. I just woke up nice and early to call TSM to get their ElDo calipers and now I need some brake cables.

I tried searching and I was getting confused with the "brackets for this one and not that one, here is what I did with this and that." I just need a simple solution to get this thing to pass.

I need the length brake cables for a 88K5 blazer to work with these calipers. I also need to know if I need to make some sort of brackets or not.

Thanks in advance!!

--Chuck
 
Which calipers did you buy from TSM. I was in the same boat you are and still need good cables. I'm currently using stock 14 bolt cables but they don't seem to work right but haven't spent much time adjusting them. I used 76 eldorado calipers then took the brackets off a seville, drilled and tapped a hole and put them on the eldo calipers. TSM sells them alread done or just the regular eldorado calipers.
 
alf4444 said:
Which calipers did you buy from TSM. I was in the same boat you are and still need good cables. I'm currently using stock 14 bolt cables but they don't seem to work right but haven't spent much time adjusting them. I used 76 eldorado calipers then took the brackets off a seville, drilled and tapped a hole and put them on the eldo calipers. TSM sells them alread done or just the regular eldorado calipers.
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Just called Skip at TSM and he informed me they are part number 3120 with the 7/16th banjo lines instead of the 10mm lines. Hope that helps.

Which also means I need to get new soft lines too :doah:

He said that all I need to get is the brake cables and I'm all set, so thats what I'm trying to get going. Being rushed sucks, good thing I haven't started work yet. LoL

Thanks again.
 
ChuckMoney said:
Just called Skip at TSM and he informed me they are part number 3120 with the 7/16th banjo lines instead of the 10mm lines. Hope that helps.

Which also means I need to get new soft lines too :doah:

He said that all I need to get is the brake cables and I'm all set, so thats what I'm trying to get going. Being rushed sucks, good thing I haven't started work yet. LoL

Thanks again.
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I used soft lines off of a 79 Chevette
 
Recon in HI sucks ballz. For regular inspections go to chucks town and country in Kailua.
Can't remember if the first name is right but town and country is. It may be Clives.
 
Alright so I can't find the brake cable stuff anywhere. Any one have a part number?
 
Can't help you with part numbers, and not full cognizant of your situation, but since the disks had to be added, is there any chance you still have the original parts?

If time is that tight, any chance you could go back stock long enough to get it inspected?
You would then have plenty of time to find the necessary stuff at your leisure.
 
Slapperbar said:
Try the Salt Lake car quest, they're pretty good there.
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Will do, thanks! Oh do you know of any Junk yards around here? Maybe i could get what I need on the cheap.

Fordum said:
Can't help you with part numbers, and not full cognizant of your situation, but since the disks had to be added, is there any chance you still have the original parts?

If time is that tight, any chance you could go back stock long enough to get it inspected?
You would then have plenty of time to find the necessary stuff at your leisure.
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No way Jose. You get caught running what you didn't get inspected with its a pretty stiff penalty if I understand correctly. And the original parts are back in NM anyways, LoL.
 
I used my factory 89 cables with my disc swap. The 88 will have the same cables as my 89 uses.
 
Slapperbar said:
Sand island, ft. shafter, schofield barracks. I assume you're military? Air Force?
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Yep, AF. Cool I'll check them out. Just got off the phone with Car Quest and they have some "cut to fit" cables :dunno:

4X4HIGH said:
I used my factory 89 cables with my disc swap. The 88 will have the same cables as my 89 uses.
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Right, I'm trying to find somewhere that has those on this stupid island. LoL

ETA: I just caught the Schofield Barracks snap. :rofl:
 
O'Reilly Auto Parts had the Cables! P/Ns BC93249 and BC93248.

The '79 chevette brake hoses P/N: BH36832.

I double checked them but if you guys notice something fishy about them, please let me know. I hope this works!!

Thanks again for all the help. This place is weird, all the "Good" parts stores (Napa ect) are junk here, and the "TV Dinner Ricer" parts stroes (O'Reilly's) actually had people that knew what they were talking about. :dunno:

Whatever, we'll see what happens.

http://www.arizonak5.com/forum/index.php?topic=4284.0

Good reference link as welll.
 
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