Hi Mark,
I used the Lokar parking brake kit when I replaced the rear end on my '54.
The type of hardware you are referring to is also called swaging hardware.
It is available in sailboat shops too.
-Don
>From: "Mark Self" <mark.self@verizon.net>
>Reply-To: "Mark Self" <mark.self@verizon.net>
>To: "Oletrucks Mailing List" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
>Subject: [oletrucks] Cable hardware
>Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 07:24:22 -0700
>
>Hey guys, please pardon my ignorance. I'm working on my parking brake
>setup ('79 Trans Am rearend in '55 1st AD). I need to make a permanent
>loop in a piece of about 1/8" cable. I've seen this little piece
>before, but I don't know what it's called. Where the cable loops back
>on itself, there's a steel sleeve that's crimped in place to keep the
>cable from slipping. Can any of you give me the correct name of this
>piece of hardware, and where would you find one?
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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