Parking / Emergency Brake – 1 Hour

Fitted parking brake (or hand brake as we would call it in England). The unit supplied is a standard Ford stock item and as the parking brake indicator will not be used this sensor was removed, as was the rubber boot from the cable linkage which fits through a hole in the floor on a stock Mustang.

Some of alterations were required, a small tab on the TKO600 gearbox was cut off to clear the linkage mechanism, and similarly the mounting bracket required slight surgery to clear the ratchet. Finally the tab which operates the parking brake indicator light required filing to clear the mounting braked at full stroke.

Note: Do not pull the horse shoe pin until you have mounted the parking brake for the last time as this releases the automatic adjuster to take up slack in the system. The standard Mk3.1 emergency brake cables supplied are for a drum brake setup and so as you can see from the picture reach past the T bar. At build school the recommendation was to purchase two 94 or later cables (left / drivers) side is shorter and typically cheaper.