3000teeth

Anyone have any experience changing this cable on a '78 or '79? Part number?

Thx,
-T

3000teeth

Here's a pic. The cable housing should clip into the plastic on top of the HVAC head, while the cable itself goes into the metal pivot arm. Right now the cable housing doesn't quite reach the clip when the cable is connected, so I think the end of the plastic, or a clip, broke off and I need to replace the cable assembly. The cable itself works fine. If I pull or press on it, I can feel/hear the lever in the dash move.

3000teeth

One last pic --here it is out w/clips.

Anyone got a good one you want to sell?

3000teeth

ummm... nevermind. I think I just figured out how to fix this one --little lithium grease and some elbow grease.

...nuthin like posting a thread and answering it myself.

Nicole

The vast majority of us has never seen a such cable. Glad you figured it out!

JP Rodkey

A couple of things:

You have all the pieces, and the cable looks fine. Generally, it is NOT recommended to grease the cables. If anything, I'd use a dry graphite lube. Be careful putting on the metal spring clip because the plastic can break. On mine, it is broken, but I have successfully used a tie wrap to hold it in place for many years.

3000teeth

Thanks.

3000teeth

Good advice, thanks. Yeah, I would have used graphite if I had any, but all I could find was some lithium bicycle bearing grease in the basement.

Chuck Schreiber

Let me know how it goes. Mine is currently inop. When I rebuilt the HVAC head with new LED and cleaned her up, I broke the clip that keeps the caple held in place on the head unit. Now when you go to adjust hot to cold the cable just bends back behind the unit. Thought about fixes, one being just to fab a new clip with a piece or several layers of plastic from hobby store. JB weld to housing after dremmel and drilling to create the new clip. Cheaper than buying a new HVAC housing. They are friggin expensive!!!! I'll do all this when the new head unit (CD player) goes in.

3000teeth

Agreed --I have an extra that I picked-up in a lot of items. It's Euro, with the stickers "auf Deutch". If I find nothing wrong with mine, I may be willing to let it go for a good price.

Chuck Schreiber

Sounds good,

Let me know. Thanks!

3000teeth

Ok, so I ended-up modifying the cable. This top pic shows where I cut off the plastic housing down to the conduit and wrapped it with zip-ties, and the bottom pic shows the underside where I cut away some plastic.

If I did it again, I wouldn't have cut anything off the end (where the single zip-tie is), and just made one cut in the plastic. It's a pretty ghetto job, but it does the trick.

Now I just have to find a vacuum diagram, cuz I knocked out all the hoses in the process.