48 coupe- question about emergency brake adjustment

[Bolts]

Hello everyone.
I replaced the emergency brake cable with a newer looking old stock cable about a year ago. Brake shoes are new, but one drum has been turned to somewhere near or slightly over max (about 12.070 I think).
The cable adjusters at both the handle and under the car are maxed out.
Emergency brake handle pulls all the way back and doesn't set the brake.
My questions are:
1) Due to limited movement of the levers, if the drum is oversize by .010 will the shoes fail to reach the drum?
2) Is my problem most likely a stretched cable?
Thanks

[Lawson Cox]

Stretched cable. There is a "thingy" you can use to take up slack in the cable, but I don't know what it is called. Found in every hardware store. I would find me another brake drum. Safety first.

[Teich]

Before you adjust the cable you should adjust the brake shoes at each wheel, then adjust the cable Then it should work,the newer cable is it the same length as the old one if the inner cable is to long in relation to the outer cable that will be a problem Laurie

[Bolts]

Originally Posted by Lawson Cox

Stretched cable. There is a "thingy" you can use to take up slack in the cable, but I don't know what it is called. Found in every hardware store. I would find me another brake drum. Safety first.

Lawson, does the thingy you're talking about get put on one side of the cable to somehow shorten the overall length?
Thanks

[Bolts]

Is this the thingy Lawson?

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/rn...FUiBfgod92cAow

[1931 flamingo]

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Had one like that in my hands this am. Young mechanic didn't know what it was for.
Paul in CT

[Lawson Cox]

Originally Posted by Bolts

Is this the thingy Lawson?

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/rn...FUiBfgod92cAow

Almost nearly but not quite hardly.

I may get one of those from Summit Racing. Neater than what I had in mind and gives more adjustment.

[1931 flamingo]

Lawson: Your local CARQUEST, Advanced Auto, etc., probably has something very similar, plus no shipping....................

Paul

[Drbrown]

To adjust hand brake one of my Service Bulletins says have someone hold brake pedal down while you tighten up cable beneath car. Hand brake must have certain amount of free play.