The early SJ410's came with the parking brake drum setup connected to the output shaft of the transfer case.
The Zuk had a leak on the transfer case output shaft which had contaminated the parking brake. The brake shoe was also down to the metal.
After calling around there were no shoes available, so I decided to swap out the early parking brake setup for the later version.
The Zuk came to me with no brakes, and luckily the rear brakes that I previously swapped in were from a later Samurai - they have the parking brake mechanism inside the rear drums.
So I order a set of parking brake cables and started on finishing the swap today.
I quickly discovered the parking brake lever on the early SJ410's is different too. Luckily I still had the parking brake from the yellow one, and it is in decent shape.
Soon I had the parking brake lever swapped out and the cable installed. I had to use cable ties to secure the cables as the brackets are missing on the rear axle. Maybe I'll re-make them later.
Now I have a parking brake, which is useful when you have a manual transmission ! :)
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