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 Posted: Sat May 22nd, 2021 07:19 pm
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JAMMAN
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 What was Ford thinking when they routed these cables? They all wear in the exact same spot thru the casing before the rust sets in, that extension spring helps on the driver side for the 2 years it actually lasts before rotting off. And that uneven pull where cable 1 merges with cable 2, no wonder they wear unevenly.

The cable ends are crimped together making it near impossible to remove and impossible to re install without a new 2 sided crimp clip and what I'm sure is a very expensive set of crimpers it takes to make it hold. They must have hired a new engineer and this was his first project.

On an automatic vehicle of any breed the e-brake is never used. There is a statistic somewhere I saw, the percentage is so small it is ridiculous and it is mostly older people who used to drive a stick.

End of rant.
So why does the cable wear through it the SAME SPOT on all of them and the routing spring is ALWAYS broken? I have 4 rangers sitting out front not one spring in one piece. I have never seen one in tact.



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