<VV> Heater control cable question... Help!

[Eric S. Eberhard]

I don't think it is stuck -- it moves freely enough.  It feels more like it 
is broken.  I am pretty sure from the symptom it is the center cable ... 
and I don't know where it attaches ... Help!


At 03:51 PM 1/4/2005, goofyroo@excite.com wrote:

> >>>>>The procedures for frozen cables are petty intuitive, and involve 
> trying to get lubricant/solvent to drain into the sheath from the high 
> end. And they take time. CLOCK time, not necessarily actual WORK time.
>
>Years ago I had a "cable oiler" from J.C. Whitney that was a marvel of 
>simplicity.  It was a large syringe ending in an open tube.  The tube's 
>end had a slit piece of hose, about like fuel-line hose, stuck in it.  The 
>hose-piece ID was such that a motorcycle cable (or heater cable, in the 
>Corvair's case) could be pushed into it and the tube tightened around it 
>via a hose clamp.
>
>I'd fill the syringe with oil, insert the plunger, and apply 
>pressure.  Gradually -- though much faster than any drip method -- the oil 
>would flow down into the cable casing, eventually dripping out the other 
>end.  Cable oiled.
>
>Wish I could find one that simple and effective today.  I tried a 
>motorcycle shop, and the Whitney catalog, to no avail.
>
>Michael Smith
>Dallas
>
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