Parking brake rachet assembly

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  1. rthomas771

    rthomas771 Member

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    This is getting interesting. More members need to chime in on style parking brake ratchet they have. You can feel the difference with your finger to see/feel if it has a slot on the left of the bracket or if you feel the end of the spring around the top hole. Be sure to list the year

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  2. HarleyGA

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    I found this spring on the internet last night. Looks like it might work. It's actually advertised to fit:
    91A-2788
    39-42 Passenger
    39-42 Mercury
    39-47 Pickup

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  3. Craig Selvey

    Craig Selvey Indiana State Rep - MCCI

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    Let us know if it does.
     
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    I got the spring to work perfectly but it took a bit of fiddling. This spring is much larger that the stock Maverick spring. I had to take one coil off and do a little reshaping then everything went back together perfectly. Some irony, I spent hours cleaning and organizing my garage looking for the lost spring but and hour after I installed the new spring I found the original. It popped into a small tray of nuts and bolts that sat on my work bench. I like the way the new modified spring works so I'm not going to mess with success. newspring.png
     
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