Thanks for this. My old guy back appreciates the guidance.
So I did a thing today and put this bracket in. As noted by others it is easily accessible by most people under the passenger floorboard.
I say most people because if you are sporting a 52 inch chest or larger this might be a struggle for you but you've got this, it's not that far in to reach.
The retainer bolt is a T25 which means you're going to be using a quarter inch drive socket. If you're looking at this from near the edge of the vehicle you may not notice that there are 3 bolts as noted in some of the pictures, you're shooting for the center bolt.
To make it more easily accessible for me, I pulled one of the cables out of the original cable stay and put it aside which is easy to do,
Unlike most of the small torx head bolts on this truck,this bolt was not ridiculously tight. It came out and went in quite easily and I used a bit of blue locktight just to keep it in place.
The fun and funny part about this exercise today is thst it was unnecessary on my vehicle, a 2024 Trialmaster with a May '24 production date. Apparently Ineos has recognized this as a problem and installed an additional cable keeper made of plastic about 12" behind the original bracket.
I've just lit a cigar but if I feel up to it after I will grab a photo of the second cable stay.
Photos added. Would I have still put this in knowing about the added cable stay?
100% While I appreciate the effort to fix this issue, plastic is plastic and with this added layer of security, I will never think about this again.
