The new cable that you show clearly does not have the rubber washer in question. I am assuming that one is the spare for the other side?
My old cable certainly had rubber washers but they were badly worn and torn and so I wasn’t sure whether they had started outside and worked their way in or were actually inside to start with and have been gradually nibbled away by the spring. My only concern was that if they disintegrate, it will throw handbrake adjustment out.
Think I am going to live with it, and ask a friendly mechanic some day.
Thanks for your responses.
