ebrake switch retainer

[Mikes Z car]

Hi all,

The ebrake switch retainer is missing on my car and I was wondering what does it look like? The attached picture points to the switch but I want to know if the L shaped bracket the switch is plugged into just slips over the tab on the non moving part of the ebrake assy or does it also go under a bolt to hold it on? If anyone just has the switch retainer (and switch too?) they want to sell me that would be terrific but understandably most want to sell the whole ebrake assy. I can get the switch off of eBay but not the retainer. I may have to make a retainer and was wondering how secure it needs to be. The PO did a nice thing and replaced the whole ebrake assy with what looks like a new one.

Thanks for any info,

Mike

[Mikes Z car]

To answer my own (old) thread I eventually discovered that the part that holds the push button switch is loose from the rest of the hand brake assembly but goes around the hand brake axle making it impossible to remove or install easily as far as I could tell. The solution was to use a hack saw at a JY to cut a switch holder from another car. I cut it where it goes around the axle and bent apart both sides of the slit until it went over the axle right next to the handle in my car. Works great.

[Mikes Z car]

Only thread in history with three posts by the originator and no replies. ha! Usually when I talk to myself I mumble so no one can tell what I am saying...

I might clarify that I did get my hand brake switch to work with the junk yard part. The reason the brake switch was missing I think is because the handbrake cable assembly installed in my car by the PO is NOS or it appears to be as it looks like it is new out of the box. It has shiny cad plating that looks like it has never gotten dirty. For some reason it appears that Nissan chose not to install the brake switch bracket on the new cable assembly. Maybe they thought the old one could be re-used though I did not see how you could re-use a part that you could not remove unless you can do that by taking the whole assembly off of the car. I was not able to tell in 2010 if that would have worked.

I think there is an echo in here...

[Captain Obvious]

Echo... :paranoid:

[harlest]

Good Job Mike!!!!!

[Mikes Z car]

Thank you harlest!

In the unlikely event someone else would run across this thread here is a drawing I shamelessly copied from a post by Arne showing the switch plate my car was missing and the slit I cut at the bottom of the junkyard car switch plate so I could slide it over the ebrake "axle" to remove it. It feels quite solid in spite of the slit as it is held on by two bolts.