Help with Parking Brake Handle

Macon ACE · Post by **Macon ACE** » September 6, 2007, 10:49 pm

It doesn't seem like it should be this hard...

Yippee! My shiny new parking brake handle arrived today! The old one is broken nearly in 2 and is held on by 2 hose clamps. It's been driving me crazy!

Anyway: can someone please tell me the secret to getting the pin out that holds the handle on? When I loosened the hose clamps the plastic part of the handle came off, but the sleeve that it was attached to - and the pin that goes into the shaft - are still there. I couldn't budge that pin.

Do I have to drill that sucker out?
:evil:

bigtrip460 · Post by **bigtrip460** » September 6, 2007, 11:25 pm

can you put a center punch to it and push it out the other side? I am not familiar with it exactly but usually pins drive out the other side.

cdherman · Post by **cdherman** » September 7, 2007, 7:07 am

Best is a roll pin punch, which is a rather special punch that has a half moon tip to keep it centered on the roll pin and not bugger up the roll pin nearly as much. Might be worht the $ to buy one, but beats me where to buy them these days.

But if its rusted, you have have to resort to drilling it out.

Macon ACE · Post by **Macon ACE** » September 7, 2007, 7:37 am

bigtrip460 wrote:can you put a center punch to it and push it out the other side? I am not familiar with it exactly but usually pins drive out the other side.

The hole it's in doesn't go all the way through. I was hoping there was some trick - guess I'll just have to drill it.

Uncle Skip · Post by **Uncle Skip** » September 7, 2007, 7:48 am

Big Trip.
I just put the notched handle in a vice and put my vice grips on the pin and worked it loose a little at a time by pulling and twisting. If it gets to hard a couple of raps with a hammer on the vice grips should get it loose.
Tap it back in place when you go to put things back.
No need to drill all the way thru.
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