I thnk thats what it is called - its that metal piece that connects the front cable to the rear two cables. Mine snapped the other night while trying to set the brake. I picked up the part from a salvage yard. How in the heck do you get that thing reconnected? I had someone pulling on the brake release while I tried to reconnect with no luck. Ideas? Gotta be some way to release the tension enough to get it hooked back up.

 

The parking brake pedal assembly has a spring tension setup in it. I haven't had to do it, but some how it will release the pressure on the cable and you can just pull out some slack.
Probably as simple as pulling the handle and giving a tug on the cable.
There's a place to slip in a bolt - probably to maybe keep it unlocked, I'm not sure because I haven't had to do it but that's apparently how it's done.
When I changed my e-brake cables, I didn't have to do that, I was able just to pull slack in the rear cables and hook it up.
Maybe your equalizer broke because your rear cables are getting too stiff ?

 

I'll give it a go when it stops raining and report back.

 

Figured it out. I made the mistake of trying to connect the rear cables first and then pull the front cable to attach. This time I attached the front cable to the equalizer and used that as leverage to pull the front cable forward (you can definitely tell its spring loaded) to attach each of the rear cables individually. Much easier. 5 min fix.

My brain bucket was not on point last night.