Identification of F15 2WD?

[Jacques Reed]

Hi Tony,

That sure does- throw a spanner in the works that is.
With your conduits being 6-3/4" shorter than mine it must be a bit of a stretch between the backing plates and the conduit supports.

I enclosed photos of original handbrake cable routing on my F15-A parts truck. There is reasonable amount of slack to allow for suspension movement. I am certain the crossmember where the equalizer is fitted is in the same position on both F15 and F15-A trucks so the distances to the backing plates should be identical. I know this the hard way- In my earlier naïve days I bought a dodgied up F15-A that had been converted from an F15.

The other surprise is look what I found! A handbrake cable to spring bracket had slipped down to the backing plate. I've had the truck 3 months but hadn't seen it. Of interest is that it seems to be of thinner gauge steel which may be as Grant Bowker pointed out in an earlier post there was a C01Q 2279A bracket and a later replacement C01Q 2279B.
I used a bracket remnant attached to a spring of a 1944 built truck to get the thickness. This thinner bracket is on a 1943 built truck. Perhaps they found in service the thinner gauge one broke early from fatigue and reissued the part in a thicker gauge steel hence the A and B versions.

Cheers