I'm putting a mico brake lock on the beast. I know it's strictly for emergencies only and a few weeks ago I sure could have used it. My final drive wasted the pinion bearing with no warning and broke the out put shaft on the tranny so I had no no way to keep it from rolling back into traffic other than the auxiliary vacuum booster to keep me with brakes and a copilot/wife who was able to jump in the seat as I got out and hold down brakes while I jumped out and put chocks behind the tires. So glad I keep them in the fridge compartment. Never had any reason for parking brake in the last 4 plus years. The PO had remove both drums from center and rear and put disc on the center, I put drums back on the rears but all the goodies for parking brakes are long gone before I took posession. And with only one possible set of parking brakes available I didn't worry about it till now. This was just to explain why I'm putting the mico lock on just for emergencies. I know others have done it and I went by the photos from the forum, when it was all done I only had about at the max 5/8' clearance between the left tire and the mico lock during a hard left turn. I could probably relocate it higher right behind the proportioning/combo valve but if if others have run like this with no issues I'd rather not. Don't want to start a major argument over the pros and cons of this device, I know it's just for emergencies, I call what happened the other day an emergency and I'm not sure a stock parking brake, the least bit out of adjustment would have held me. Any experiences out there in the consortium.
Thanks
Skip Hartline