Hi Guys!





I'm in the process of doing a transmission swap on my Guldstrand/ Katech C5z, and I'm coming down the home stretch. While buttoning things up, such as reconnecting the brakes, I have run into a major pickle. Who would have thought that after having the car COMPLETELY APART, this would be my big hangup:





I cannot get the bolts that reconnect this Ebrake cable bracket to grab the threads in the Ebrake shoe inside the rotor, and therefore I cannot reconnect the Ebrake. All of the tutorials I found said to disconnect the line FROM the bracket, but that proved to be nearly impossible because of that ridiculous radial compression connector thing. However, I noticed I could very easily just disconnect those two bolts, disconnecting the bracket- should I not have done this for some reason?? Because these things are NOT grabbing. I have tried jacking up the suspension to find new potential geometries, slightly pulling back the rotor and prying against it with a screwdriver to get a nice square relationship between the bolt and ebrake shoe, keeping pressure on it:





..But nothing seems to work! The only thing I can think is that the ends of these bolts are ALL stripped, because there are four of these things, and theyALL look like this:






However, they appear to be designed this way.

Any experience here?? I appreciate any help you guys can provide! Help me get this thing back on the road!

Cheers,

-Aaron

 

make sure the parking brake inside the car is released... those bolts are designed that way to help center the bolt in the threads so there is less chance of stripping them... they should go in relatively easy as long as there is slack in the cable

 

Did you figure this out?? I'm in the same boat!

 

There's a tool and technique to remove a parking brake cable from the bracket as seen here in the video that might work on the C5: https://www.torquenews.com/14093/sim...t-not-show-you

 

I’m in the middle of a driveline drop as well. I got the cable out of the bracket and the bracket is still on the spindle. It was a bit tricky because there are three tabs I needed to push in. I just used a small flat blade screwdriver or two and worked my way around it until it popped out. I suggest you get the cable out of the bracket so you aren’t fighting any cable tension while trying to start the bolts.

 

Old thread I know, but I found this thread by searching for a solution to a similar issue I had, so hope this helps someone.

After spending way too long on trying to free the part from the bracket by compressing the metal prongs with o-rings, fingers and pliers, I came across something that literally took 30 seconds to free that cable. Take a 13mm ring / box wrench and slide it up over the cable, then firmly over the metal fingers. It presses them all in at once and you simply slide the part out.

 

Moved to C5 Tech.

 

Sure looks like first 2-3 threads are stripped