Was wondering if anyone out there could help me with a problem I'm having with the parking brake lever on my 97 XJ? In short, the button popped off a number of years ago. Annoying, but the brake itself worked (just needed two hands).
All was well until I had the local dealer do the airbag control module relocation last week. (This was a recall item to relocate the module from underneath the driver's seat to inside the center console.) In the process they somehow 'unhooked' the end of the operating rod that travels down though the handle and into the ratchect mechanism of the brake assembly. Now they can't seem to figure out how to 'rehook' it (and are, of course, telling me I need to drop the $80 to buy a whole new parking brake assembly.)
It's been many moons since I drew ascii art, but I've tried to draw the whole thing below (using fixed font, of course.) The bottom line is normally, the rod is spring loaded at the button end (pushing out), and something then would be 'holding' on to the other end down in the ratchet/console. The ratchet end is no longer attached. Does anyone have any idea how to get this thing attached again?
Thanks in advance, Jeff Sents
sents (at) mindspring (dot) com
Side view of parking brake handle (from drivers seat)
----------------------------------------------------- |----| | _______ | / | | (What's back here?) | ===////////===============================| |-| | \ | | | |----| | ( + ) ------------------------------------------ | | < \\ < button spring rod < < ratchet & gears
The rod itself is pretty simple and looks like:
________ | ==========================================|
???? The botton & spring So something on this end are must be 'holding' pushing the rod onto this end of to the left rod