Auto Parking Brake Release, Timing Chain Set, and Bendix Electro Touch-Tuner: The Big and the Small

["Eric" <gearhead@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you, Paul and John, for the E brake hose clip info. If there is no
clip, then mine doesn't fit tight enough for a good seal. More hose from
NAPA.

My '72 Newport has a new timing gearset. Upon catastrophic failure of the
nylon cam gear, I found the chain loose enough to lift right off the cam
gear while still mounted. The new steel set has made the expected
improvement in the motor's performance and smoothness.

I don't recall the 'replyer', but thanks to whomever suggested the use of
some epoxy to the phenolic switch piece in the controller for the direction
of the dial indicator on a Bendix Electro Touch-Tuner. While this worked on
the 1st breakage of this piece, the outer two next weakest links broke upon
installation. Plan B was to precisely cut out a replacement piece out of the
plastic lid of a recently devoured deli dish. This worked well enough tho it
was a still a little fragile in motion. The design upgrade now includes a
slim piece of said plastic lid that is routed thru the 2 tiny microspring
holes on 2 of the 4 tiny copper pieces held together by the two microsprings
that locks the pieces together and provides a little more stiffness for this
plastic connector. If anyone would like to fix their Electro Touch-Tuner's
refusal to reverse dial direction at the end of 'search', I can give further
details to repair the likely offending parts including the patented double
needle nose plyer splaying technique!.
                                  Imperial, 1963. America's most adroitly
built car?

Thanks, again, all.

Eric
'63 Crown Four-Door
'72 Newport Custom Sedan