I was glad to see the part number, and see them on ebay.
I have to free mine up about each 5 or 6 years. I have five 2nd gen. Escorts, so I do it to a couple of them at a time. The left side and right side ones are a mirror image of each other. I remove the part (Ford calls it a handbrake actuator in the Service Manual) free them up, and once the solvent (old gas) has dried off, I spray them with a liquid molybdenum, which dries up, leaving a nice coating that is non sticky, but wont melt away.
When I asked about these at the Ford dealer about ten years back, they could order the handbrake actuators for about $53 apiece.
I have to free mine up about each 5 or 6 years. I have five 2nd gen. Escorts, so I do it to a couple of them at a time. The left side and right side ones are a mirror image of each other. I remove the part (Ford calls it a handbrake actuator in the Service Manual) free them up, and once the solvent (old gas) has dried off, I spray them with a liquid molybdenum, which dries up, leaving a nice coating that is non sticky, but wont melt away.
When I asked about these at the Ford dealer about ten years back, they could order the handbrake actuators for about $53 apiece.