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Date:         Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:37:02 -0800
Reply-To:     Mark Drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         Mark Drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: front parking brake cable
Comments: To: craig cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <d1ea9acf0612161149r68cc0d60x982fb4bd963b7b8e@mail.gmail.com>
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I have done a few. I don't see how you could get a new one in without dropping the tank even if you got the old one out that way. Part of the cable is a nylon guide block that clips into small bracket welded to the body. On 2wd models the tank blocks this. No sweat to change the cable on a Syncro though.

Rare is the part that is easier to service on a Syncro.

You need to pull the filler before you drop the tank. After the 3 screws come out you rotate the filler hole part a little until it lines up with some notches in the body. Only then will it come out.

Mark

craig cowan wrote:

> has anyone on this list actually ever done this replacement? theres > practically nothing in the archives about replacing the front parking > brake cable, and i really cant find a way to do it. I've spent hours > trying everything imagineable short of dropping the tank (might be > doing that soon....) Is there a good way of doing any of this? Any > good directions for dropping the tank (at least the back half). I took > out the 3 screws that hold the filler neck to the body, but do i have > to actually remove the filler neck? It looks like if i dropped it > without removing the neck, id brake the neck off. If so, hows the best > way to do this? > > -Craig > '85GL Sunroof >


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