Dive under the oldest Cherokee (now relegated to donor status) to investigate removing the handbrake & straight away see a problem: I can't see it, well not in any detail. I'd quite forgotten that with standard height Cherokees, while you can lie under them, you can't raise your head much & not a lot of daylight penetrates the gloom. Jack it up, so o/s f. wheel's about 1' in the air - & all the other wheels are still on the ground (no wonder they're so good off-road!) 7 back under with a light & what I hope is the right spanner, 'cos this is definitely a job for a ratchetting ring - & my largest is 13mm. Yes, it's the right size, but there's no way I'm going to wind an all but seized adjuster nut along 2" of rusty (once I'd brushed the mud off, to reveal the thread!), in a the confined space above the prop. when the adjuster itself is not solidly mounted but at the end of a thin rod.
the rear brakes were donated to the green one Christmas before last, so should be able to unhook the rear cables from the adjuster, then the whole thing can be withdrawn up through the hole in the tunnel. Back inside (the Jeep, not indoors!) find that contrary to what I thought yesterday, while you can see one of the mounting bolts, & onewhere the other one is - under the carpet! without removing the console you can't get to them! Anyway you CAN get the console out without removing the T-handle, it helps if you're not to fussed about the shutter the selector lever moves through - AND it would be so much easier if it wasn't stuck in "P"!Anyway, console's out of the way, trunking for rear heater outlets likewise, handbrake's out. Triumphantly borne into shed, place in vice, adjuster nut unwound & the bridge that the rear cables connect to is removed. Clean up the rust, ready for some gel prior to painting & decide to look in the red one, for which it's destined, to see how much of the lever is actually visible, only to find - it's completey different!
Roll under it (with a 2" lift & o/s tyres no need for a jack here) just to confirm how different & apart from much improved access, as what was up in the tunnel above the prop. is now just inboard of the o/s sill, I fear it'll be a far worse job - &, if the trans in the green one doesn't respond to the tender administrations of my new found friend in the trade, it will become the "parts car" so I'll have to do it twice
It's at times like this that doing something trivial often helps - & I'd noticed the centre armrest/cubbybox lid was a little loose; hardly surprising, one of the hinge screws was working its way out. That's when I realised that, with these later consoles, you can remove the cubbybox itself - which should give direct access to the handbrake beneath, through the hole, i.e. no need to wrestle with the console
- & so it does, but you can't even see the mounting bolts - because the rear heater trunking's in the way!!! 
Here endeth the lesson - happy Bank Holiday
