Parking brake

Kirk-NJ

Well-known Member
Was down a tractor salvage/boneyard yesterday. Ran across this parking brake on a 9n. Ain't never seen one of these before.
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Possibly Steve but looking closely at it I'm thinking maybe an aftermarket item. I know you can't see it from the photo but where it connects at the end of the trans case/rear case the bolt that goes thru is molded into the flat steel bracket. Seems like a lot of trouble/time spent on in when a small angle would do.

Kirk
 
That's a lot of linkage for someone to cobble together. I'd go with a purchased item. You know how many little magazines there were like JC Whitney. It looks like their kind of deal.
 
Brakes run to both sides, racket style with push button on handle. It would be easier to make/install a sherman brake handle for handcapped person.
 
I agree, it looks to me like an add on that was "engineered" to use existing attachment points, along with the routing to leave access to the side plate without removing the linkage. I assume the cross piece is some kind of sleeve bolted to the top plate. If it's home made the guy did a neat job.
 
I am going with home made, the boomerang shaped piece and the nockletark mechanism over the top to the other side definitely look home made by someone clever with welding and fabricating skills, the handle and ratchet looks like something from an old vehicle and was probably the start of the project. Definitely well done.
 
Also, left and right brakes are on different sides. A more useful modification than the hand parking brake, IMO.
 
I told that boy time and time again when he was little to stay away when the old man was mowing hay with the horses and sickle mower.

I knew a really nice man that lost his left leg that way when he was a boy!
 
This is a quote from Larry (TX) posted on the N site about the brake, Interesting

That handle, toothed bracket, cog and 1st connecting rod is off of a WWII 1/4 ton jeep trailer (known as an MBT), no two ways about it as I've restored several of the trailers over time and know those parts by heart.

These parts were very hard to come by until the MD Juan Co. in the Philippines started reproducing parts to build an entire trailer; (before Juan started reproducing these parts, I'd have to locate and use a hand brake assembly out of a '30 or '31 Model A Ford as those were a fairly close resemblance to the original trailer hand brake - fortunately I found a salvage yard in Beverly Shores, I believe PA or IN, that had an abundance of old Model A's and bought up as many as I could afford).

The one you've pictured is definitely an original, so if you can buy it, do so because if nothing else, you could easily sell it to a military vehicle restorer much like myself!
 

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