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How do you take the park brake handle off?
Posted: March 20, 2011, 12:54 am
by qwertyd10n
Hey everyone,
I've got my park/emergency brake assembly out of the truck so I can repaint it and also so I can put in the new firewall cover.
What I can't figure out is how to take the plastic handle off the shaft... there seems to be a pin holding it on, but what do I do with it?
Cheers,
Dion
Posted: March 20, 2011, 1:36 am
by Leeroy
if you can grab the pin with some pliers you can pull it out, or if not you will have to hit it with a punch and push it all the way through. Once it's through it should just fall into the middle of the tube and the handle will fall right off.
Posted: March 21, 2011, 9:34 am
by jmf66
Normally you'd drive the pin out through the other side, but there's only one hole on the original handle. I used a die grinder to split the plastic and broke it off using a screwdriver. That'll expose the pin where you can either grab it with vice grips or drive it out with a punch. Of course you'll have to buy a replacement handle, but I bet you were gonna do that anyway.
Posted: March 21, 2011, 9:46 am
by CooGAR
BTW.... I am looking for a replacement handle for my '65. If anyone has a decent one laying around, I'd be interested.....
Thanks!
Posted: March 21, 2011, 11:22 am
by jmf66
I haven't found a parking brake handle for my 66 either. It looks like a 66 Mustang handle will work.. and they're plentiful. I will try that if they're not reproduced for our trucks.
Posted: March 21, 2011, 11:50 am
by BMJ's 65
I know this one guy that makes them
Posted: March 21, 2011, 11:52 am
by 6166 Junkyard Dog
have new ones in chrome ,,, just does not say brake on it
Posted: March 21, 2011, 8:39 pm
by Alan Mclennan
BMJ's 65 wrote:I know this one guy that makes them
Well tell him to step up and not be so bashful!, what do they say on the handle?
Posted: March 21, 2011, 9:14 pm
by Max
CooGAR wrote:BTW.... I am looking for a replacement handle for my '65. If anyone has a decent one laying around, I'd be interested.....
Thanks!
David, I have one. I'll bring it to next lunch. UH discount.
Posted: April 8, 2011, 1:16 am
by Alan Mclennan
while we are on the topic of handbrakes, the greenslick seem`s to have a die-cast handle!, is this correct or is it a ring in?
Posted: April 8, 2011, 5:58 am
by Max
That almost looks like the plastic is worn down and is white underneath but I don't think they're like that...
Posted: April 8, 2011, 6:40 am
by f100jim
Alan Mclennan wrote:while we are on the topic of handbrakes, the greenslick seem`s to have a die-cast handle!, is this correct or is it a ring in?
I got one off a 57 ford country squire wagon just like that ,Alan.