ATC90 brake

[mopar_man]

My trike is missing the brake lever and cable. Is there any way of making the brake work with just the foot lever? As it sits now with the front cable missing, the pivot doesn't work properly and the lever just goes all the way down with no brake action whatsoever.

[harryredtrike]

put up a pic and the advise will flow

[mopar_man]

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Messing around with the linkage tonight, I think the brakes are shot anyway but if I can get them repaired, I'd like to be able to just use the foot brake.

[thefox]

Yes you don't need the rear brake cable hooked up for the foot brake to work. The foot peddle does not use a cable, just that linkage rod.

[Pafrig]

it wont reach to the front. ive tried.

[Vealmonkey]

Basically what you have to do is remove the pivot first. Then you remove the welded on piece on the rear brake pedal. Then you have to either need a scrap of metal to cut to shape and weld in place or you need an st90 or similar brake pedal. Then you cut the piece off the donor pedal and weld it to the atc90 brake pedal. You can't really take a pedal off another machine and just bolt it on as the atc90 brake pedal has certain bends the other brake pedals don't. You may have to move the new welded on piece around once or twice so only tack weld the piece into place and get it situated where it works best for you. If you don't get it in exactly the right place then you will need a piece of metric "all thread" and bend it so it works with your new pedal. That should pretty much do it. I hope that makes sense for you.