SOA Emergency brake cables

[ChiefJosh]

All of you who are running SOA, did you have to replace or alter your ebrake cables? I'm installing the 8.25 out of an XJ, which has two different lengths of cables, one is like 30", the other is like 60". The cables out of my D35 are around 45", I'm just not sure they will be long enough. Any ideas?

[Duner]

We had to use our M35 cables on the D44 that came out of the XJ donor the XJ cables did not fit the cable pull harness under the MJ's bed.

[carnuck]

I used the original cables, but rerouted the upper part slightly so it didn't hit the exhaust

[Regger]

I was also told that the '86 years had the longest stock cables out of all the years for some reason... Whether that was for the M20 version or what...

 

But its worth a try and the local parts store to look up the early model years and see if its a different number than what you have..

 

Also, I was running 6" lift and still used the stock cables.. They got a little tight at full droop, but still worked...

 

HTH

Ryan

[JOMJ87]

I made a spacer for the block where it mounts to the bed(where the cable splits and drops to the tires) and lowered that so that my cables were long enough. May not be the right way but it works great. just a cheap idea.

 

Cole

[Tracker]

Rocky Road sells the hardware to allow stock cables to work well with SOA. Basically, it's just a bracket that mounts the two cables about 8 inches farther back and a threaded tube and rod that extend your main cable to meet the splitter. I put one in yesterday.