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The Earthforce
EF-3 operates on hydraulic drive, so needs no service
brakes. Except when I'm stopped on a hill and I need to
move a fence, rock, chair, or other obstacle in front of
me. Then, I need a parking brake so I don't loose the
machine or my legs. However, the cable broke. For a
while, I carried a brick, but I continued to have trouble
dropping it in front of a wheel. I'd have to get off the
machine to relocate the brick. Then I had trouble getting
the brick in front of the machine as it rolled away.
Finally, after ordering another cable from the Bobcat
store for a B200/B250 (the Bobcat remarketed equivalent), I
found the cable is two and three quarter inches longer.
Seems that Bobcat reengineered the mounting postion for
the cable end next to the driveshaft disk brake. Options:
1) Cut the cable and reweld/braze. 2) Fabricate a new
cable mount for the lever end. 3) Fabricate a new cable
mount for the caliper end. 4) Move the lever. 5) Retain
the brick. I discarded Option 5 as its so hard to use.
Having seen Option 4 on a friends machine, I vetoed it as
it took too much cutting. Option 2 would be too public a
display of my crude workmanship. Option 1 seemed the best
way to flush $40. So I took Option 3, fabricating a
bracket that moved the cable 2.75" further away from
the existing cable stop.
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