Picked up a 71 Cutlass and the parking brake cable was not installed. I have two questions.

1. Can the cable be installed while the body is on the car. I ask this question as it related to the next question.

2. What are the correct holes for routing the cable through the frame by the fire wall. I've attached pictures below. If these are the correct holes (shown with the arrows), I could not route the threaded end of the parking brake cable thru the hole shown with the blue arrow as the angle is to great and the fire wall is in the way.

Hope this makes sense.

The blue arrow is the top of the frame. There are three holes. Does the parking brake cable route thru the roughly 1" diameter round hole shown with the blue arrow. The red arrow I believe is where the parking brake cable routes through the fire wall.

This picture shows the side of the frame. Does the parking brake cable route where the green arrow is pointed, into the frame and then out the hole shown in the prior picture with the blue arrow. Finally thru the firewall into the car where the red arrow is pointed.

 

Maybe this helps?

 

It can be done on the car. The hard part is getting through all those holes. Use a piece of coat hanger as a fish, first.