The parking brake cable has finaly snapped on my wifes '01 Lexus RX-300. The part that has rotted/snapped is directly under the driver floor board/seat area.
It is completely exposed to the elements and the sheathing has worn away causing the bare cable to be exposed to the road salt, strated freying over the years and has finaly broken. We seldom used the parking brake. I tried keeping a piece of tubing(sliced down the middle)over that part of the cable that was exposed. This exposed part of the cable has no ware point, as it's part of the adjustment for the P-Brake and is stationary under the floor. Why the sheathing has worn away is beyong me with the exception of that it started cracking and got worst from there on!
The rest of the P-Brake cable/sheathing is in like perfect condition with the plastic sheathing still fully covering the rest of the cable, in front of and behind the portion that has rotted/snapped.
My question is:
Can I buy some new cable and splice/crimp the twe cables together? As this is the only bad spot of the P-Brake cable!
Is there special tools that I'll need to do this job correctly and securly???
I want to do it right and do it once!
I have looked online at different sites for the cable and all I have found is... "raw lengths of cable" and, the partial replacement portion for the part of the area I don't need to fix(usless to me)!
To replace the whole P-Brake cable would be very labor intensive and completely "NOT NEEDED"!
Any ideas and tips would be welcome and appricated. I guess I can get very creative all on my own and come up with something!
It is completely exposed to the elements and the sheathing has worn away causing the bare cable to be exposed to the road salt, strated freying over the years and has finaly broken. We seldom used the parking brake. I tried keeping a piece of tubing(sliced down the middle)over that part of the cable that was exposed. This exposed part of the cable has no ware point, as it's part of the adjustment for the P-Brake and is stationary under the floor. Why the sheathing has worn away is beyong me with the exception of that it started cracking and got worst from there on!
The rest of the P-Brake cable/sheathing is in like perfect condition with the plastic sheathing still fully covering the rest of the cable, in front of and behind the portion that has rotted/snapped.
My question is:
Can I buy some new cable and splice/crimp the twe cables together? As this is the only bad spot of the P-Brake cable!
Is there special tools that I'll need to do this job correctly and securly???
I want to do it right and do it once!
I have looked online at different sites for the cable and all I have found is... "raw lengths of cable" and, the partial replacement portion for the part of the area I don't need to fix(usless to me)!
To replace the whole P-Brake cable would be very labor intensive and completely "NOT NEEDED"!
Any ideas and tips would be welcome and appricated. I guess I can get very creative all on my own and come up with something!
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