Re: Speedo Angle Drive Question

["Harold McElraft" <hmcelraft@xxxx>]

Bill

Are you sure that the cable was not a replacement itself. Once upon 
a time I was going to replace the inner cable because of a crimp - 
so, when I got ready to put it in I noticed the new one was in fact 
wound the wrong way - the original one was not. After some checking 
I discovered that they come both ways depending on the application 
(I had gotten a universal cable that comes with a cute plastic end 
with some epoxy to hold it in place). I could not find a universal 
that was wound the correct way and eventually went with the OEM 
replacement, which was wound the correct direction.

Harold McElraft - 3354

-- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "content22207" <brobertson@xxxx> 
wrote:
> Finally autopsied speedo. Right angle grears fine (yay!). Problem 
is
> short cable that passes through spindle. Square cimp end is unwound
> and mangled. In its infinite wisdom DMC wound in opposite 
direction of
> predominant wheel rotation. All it takes is disturbance to one 
strand
> and cable will destroy itself from wheel movement alone.
> 
> Wheel disc is fine BTW.
> 
> I've got angle drive off car but can't figure out how to remove 
short
> cable from its gear. Does anyone know how to separate the two? If I
> can remove short cable, will replace with cut down parts house 
cable.
> More complicated back up plan otherwise -- will post if that's 
what it
> comes to.
> 
> Bill Robertson
> #5939