[T3] Removing Hand Brake Cable

[j_jonik at yahoo.com (J. Jonik)]

1971 T-3???? 
Tried to remove a good emergency/hand brake cable from a parts car to replace an obviously stretched, not yet broken, one on my on-road car.
Is there a way to guide the threaded brake lever end of that cable into the tube so that it can be simply pulled through the tube and out the rear???? The lever end has an edge...a lip... at the end of the screw threads that jams and will not be pulled through...yet...despite all sorts of jiggering and pushing and etc.
One "how to" site said one may have to take off the brake lever assembly to get that threaded end going back through the tube.?? Easy to install a cable, of course, just by pushing a greased cable back in. ?? VW manuals are useless about this.
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