Hand Brake Lever Pin Clip

[homeboymi]

I'm working on the emergency brake system on my 40. Can anyone help me with what tool to remove the hand brake lever pin clips. They are part number
91A-2106. Look like little horse shoes bent around the pin.

 

[TerryOH]

I use a screw driver inserted into any of the opening, twist the blade and try your best to straighten the clip back to a horse shoe shape, it will then come off.

 

[glennpm]

I've done the same as Terry with a flat blade screwdriver.

 

[Bruce Lancaster]

No special tool is needed, but if there actually is a correct tool it would be this ancient variant of snap-ring pliers with outwardly facing flat tips. The one below to my surprise actually mentions this ridiculously obsolete application in its ad: "For spreading both soft iron horseshoe lock washers used on brakes and tempered steel lock rings..."
I have a proper old one, but it would be a lot quicker to pry them off with a screwdriver than to find the thing.

 

[glennpm]

Nice tool!

 

[rotorwrench]

It looks like it might work for some outside type snap rings too.

 

[glennpm]

Yeah only problem is that it's not a Snapon

 

[hotrodA]

Those horseshoe clips are a real PITA, at least for me.

Could an appropriately sized snap ring with eyes be substituted?

 

[Mr. Will]

No special tool is needed, but if there actually is a correct tool it would be this ancient variant of snap-ring pliers with outwardly facing flat tips. The one below to my surprise actually mentions this ridiculously obsolete application in its ad: "For spreading both soft iron horseshoe lock washers used on brakes and tempered steel lock rings..."
I have a proper old one, but it would be a lot quicker to pry them off with a screwdriver than to find the thing.

I have that version of Snap On pliers and tried to use them to get the E brake lever clips off but no go. The tip of the pliers where to wide and would not fit in between the legs of the horse shoe clip. I used a screw driver to spread the clip far enough the get the pliers in then they worked. Raybestos, and I'm sure others, makes a E clip replacement that is much easier to put on and take off.

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