The emergency brake handle has broken on me twice (65 6 cylinder). The first time I practically had to destroy the handle in order to get it off because I had so much trouble getting the pin (or whatever it is called) out of the shaft. I put on a new handle and after about a year this one broke! I probably should learn to grab it closer to the central shaft rather than out on the edge.
In any case, I am having the same problem as before getting the handle off. Once I get the pin out this time though I am thinking I'd like to put on the new handle using some other approach such as drilling a hole so that instead of using the pin I might slide a small screw all the way through the shaft and put a nut and lock washer on the other end.
Does this sound reasonable? Is this difficulty with removing the emergency brake handle something that seems to happen a lot? If so, is there a typical solution to this problem? Thanks.