[DeTomaso] Speedometer cable frayed

[tbaranek at earthlink.net]

Good words of wisdom!
Thanks

Original Message:
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From:  JDeRyke at aol.com
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 02:28:39 EST
To: tbaranek at earthlink.net, detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Speedometer cable frayed


In a message dated 3/1/08 1:11:59 PM, tbaranek at earthlink.net writes:

> My speedometer cable (1973 L) frayed at the ZF connector.  The male (one 
> inch long square piece)came apart from the rest of the cable.
> 
> Is this a do it yourself?  It looks like it routes through some
complicated 
> parts of the car.  Can I attach a new one (vendor please) to the old one
and 
> pull/snake the new one into place?
> 
Only if you feel lucky. When a cable wears out or breaks, most often the 
plastic low-friction liner inside the cable jacket is also badly worn. So
when you 
swap cables as you've outlined, the combination of new cable & old liner 
conspire to grab and break the new cable, too. Swapping a cable only takes 
minutes; swapping the cable jacket means removing the console (both
halves), the rear 
access panel and rear firewall upholstery and climbing under the car to R &
R 
the clamps below the engine/transaxle. Figure on spending a whole Saturday 
doing the complete job. Or attend a local Tech Session and there will be
guys 
there ready to help you, that have done this before. Not hard, just
tedious. 

Second thing: don't remove the small bolt below the right-angle adapter on 
the ZF. Pulling that 10mm bolt on a fully assembled tranny will release the 
intermediate driveshaft, which then drops inside the ZF. I've welded up a
couple 
of cracked ZF cases that were driven (a little ways) with that 4" shaft 
bouncing around inside.   The right-angle adapter can if necessary be
removed without 
screwing with that little bolt. Good luck- J Deyke


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