E brake

What are my e brake options? Can I see what you guys have done.
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I carry a brick. Seriously. a brick, because i dont have the money or time yet to rebuild said e-brake.

 

block o wood.
and i really do need to fix my parking brake.
all that is wrong with mine is that everything is oil soaked.
but now that it doesnt leak anymore (crowd cheers)
it shouldnt be too hard to do.

 

Rubber wheel chock from Harbor Freight for $10 works really well, especially when pulling cable for your buddy.

 

4x4 Pressure treated cut on a 45 angle. Lays right beside the gas filler neck between the seat and door.

 

All very good choices but I'm looking for more of a lever attached to the jeep at all times

I do have 81 axles with the ebrake cables coming out so I gues I can find somthing similar to the 81.

Looks like when o get some money it's time for the junk yard.
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I was tossing around something like this, http://www.speedwaymotors.com/Lokar-Floor-Mount-Emergency-Hand-Brake,22638.html I know a trip to the wrecking yard might yield something similar. I have seen later model Jeep under dash levers that were fabricated into early CJ5 also.

 

I pulled a center mounted hand pull out of an old Mercury Capris (It has a leather boot, and I'm a sucker for junk!). I put in 10" drums in the rear that have the parking brake connections (more junk I had laying around), and got some really short cables from JCWhitney (78 CJ7) that connect to the parking brake functioning elements in the drums. I connected the other end of the JCWhitney cables to some tabs that I welded onto the frame and fabricated a center cable (out of junk) to connect the sleeved cables at the tabs. The center cable runs perpendicularly across the span of the underside of the tub. I then used a turnbuckle from Ace hardware (with junk at both ends) to connect the hand brake to the center cable. As long as my rear drums are properly adjusted I can now (proudly) park on a slope with the rig in neutral. I say proudly because it's taken me about of year of on/off working to get here. Entire project, not including the brake rebuild and my time, cost less than $100. Come to think of it a block of wood would have been cheaper and less time consuming...hmmm.

 

Guys, the bricks, blocks of wood and such are not emergency brakes.

They are substitutes for "Parking" brakes.

Just try to stop a Jeep going down the road by throwing a brick under the wheel...........

Emergency brakes are for stopping a moving vehicle that has lost its primary braking system. That is why true emergency brakes are cable (or some kind of mechanical linkage) operated, by the way.

 

But can you stop an ONCOMING vehicle with a brick? That's the question.

 

my cable is broke on mine wonder if transfer case drunm still works . In and emergensey you could always try to throught the wood block and catch rear wheel dont think it would work too good lol. i would like to get my transfer case brake to work too

 

Just got itmovin nowyou wantme to stop??

 

Disc brake where the drum used to be on the back of the t-case.

 

just how would you set up the disc?

 

Pics here! Also if you search the forums there are other more detailed pics.

http://picasaweb.google.com/jzeber5/JeepStuff#

 

I plan to use the drum brake on the output of the school bus transmission AND the cable operated rear axle brakes. Thinking about setting the rears up as spring loaded to always be on, (similar to the air brakes on a train or semi-tractor trailer rig if I understand the concept correctly). Using the underdash lever from a mid 60's Chevy truck mounted to the outboard side of the drivers seat (between the tank and the side). To release the brakes you would have to pull up on the lever, blocking getting out of the JEEP. When the lever was lowered to exit, the spring pressure would apply the emergency/parking brake. The only automatic thing planned for our project.

 

ever hear of a Mico Brake.