Wolf_n_Kat wrote:
Okay, I'll see if I can find anything like you described re: parts stores. Shouldn't be too hard to find, as Reno is something of a 'trucking hub' with it's share of truck stops, trucking companies, and a couple fulfillment centers (Amazon being one of them). I might even try the local RV centers, although my experience with them has been something along the lines of "We'll give you $500 trade-in for that on a new motorhome..."
Uhhhhh... Don't want a new motorhome, I want to fix the one I've already got!
Oh, something else I remembered from your response to my original post - yes, it's the three-piece cable system. The 'Master cable' from the handle to the adjustable yoke, and two 'Slave cables' that run to each of the rear brakes. On mine, it's the Master cable that broke. There's a (relatively) short sleeved section that runs through the firewall and engine compartment and ends where it bolts to the frame, and the cables are exposed from there on back...
If the cable had broken outside the sleeve, I could possibly rig up a repair that would hold me until I could get a real cable. Just my luck, the break is inside the sleeve, so no amount of creative engineering is going to work.
So I'll try your suggestions, and also see if I can find any kind of part number on the assembly itself. If it's a stamped number, that MAY be possible. If it's an inked/painted number, I'm thinking that the odds of it still being there after 42 years is somewhere between slim and none...
And Slim left town. ;)
Tell Slim to get back here! ...
Try CarQuest p/n BCA93516 ...
It's the front parking brake cable for a '74 B300 van with 127 in. wheelbase (aren't you glad you measured) ... should be the same for your motorhome. (It is the same for '77 B300 with 127 in. wheelbase.)
P.S. Carquest database does list a MB300 for '74, surprise, surprise! It also has database categories for just about all parking brake parts. (I had to do a search for "parking" rather than the standard DB drill down ... and it ask for wheelbase before giving me the parts list.)
Here's a link to a picture, if the CarQuest commercial website allows it.
