good afternoon youtube so just wanted to make a short video today to show you one of our
kind of unique products this is actually something i came up with myself about 20 years ago
so these are what we call our emergency brake or e-brake extensions so this here is an emergency
brake actuating lever this would normally be attached to your drum brake and there's a
lever right there i've cut this one off just to use as a test piece but the way the emergency
brake works on the toyota mini trucks there's a cable that comes down to the middle of the
axle and then attaches on this side and also attaches on the other side of the the axle
and then it's pulled into the middle of the axle to actuate the break the problem is this pivot
point is down in the middle of the drum and then it's also behind the axle and this cable goes
over the leaf spring pack and on a stock setup you've got usually three or four leaves on the
four-wheel drive pickups and forerunners and with that there's enough clearance here that this
cable can clear the spring so your cable would come over here and you could pull this lever in
but if you go to a thicker spring pack now the top of this lever is below the level of
the top of the springs and so the cable rubs over here every time you pull the e-brake on
the steel cable is rubbing on the springs and you often can't get the e-brakes to actuate
so that's one problem that you run into so the one other issue you can run into on the toyota
four-wheel drive trucks is if you've got an 85 or earlier pickup or four runner your rear axle
is 55 inches wide and then if you have the newer 86 and later pick up a 4runner the rear axle is
58 inches wide or 3 inches wider which means an inch and a half on each side if you're swapping
a newer axle onto an older truck you can do it it bolts up perfectly the spring perches are in the
same position it's just a little wider axle and it's a bigger diameter axle tube i think it goes
from two and a half to three inch diameter tube so it's a stronger axle housing and very popular
i have one of those on my truck for example but with the e-brake your e-brake cable
stops here and it's got a hook up here you've got an inch and a half between the e-brake lever
and the end of the cable so what you can do is we make this extension that can go over the top like
that and then you bring your e-brake cable up and drill a hole here wherever it needs to be
and then you just clip your e-brake cable in here and then you use our supplied bolt through here
to hold the extension onto the e-brake lever that's how you work with the wider axle problem
and if you've got the taller spring problem the fix there is you use our bracket this way
and you slide it on with the bent side in and then you put the bolt through there
and then you come up here as high as you need to clear your thicker springs you know maybe
it's only this high this high you can go up to about two inches higher we don't drill these
because we don't know how tall your springs are so anyway you mark and drill your hole
where you need it to be this bent metal on the back side locks in against the e-brake lever
and then the bolt here locks everything clamps it together tight and then you just run your
original e-brake cable with the pin and the cotter pin through here that's then works your
e-brake you can solve two different problems either taller springs
or a wider axle just by how you put this thing on for instance if you're getting a wider
axle from a junkyard grab the e-brake cable from the same vehicle and it's already longer
but anyway that's our product so we have these for sale on our website i'll put a link in the video
description and in the end screen of the video so yeah these things work pretty well i ran them
on my truck for quite a while i don't use them anymore because i have different brakes i have
disc brakes on my truck now so i don't have one of these anymore so i don't need the extensions
yeah that's our emergency brake extension and i got to get these painted and in the mail today
we've got a couple customers waiting for those so anyway if you have any questions
about those post up in the comment section below and as always thanks for watching