<VV> Clutch Cable Strech?

[Ron]

Maybe your car is shrinking.

RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Verthein" <minoxphotographer at yahoo.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:49 PM
Subject: <VV> Clutch Cable Strech?


> Sharing this post with the forum...so if you do both..excure the
> re-run....
>
> As you may remember, in Twinsburg last month, I had trouble with the
> clutch cable in the '64. Got to where I could hardly get it to
> disengage the clutch enough to shift gears. I adjusted the slack out of
> the cable (in the pouring rain) and it's been fine since. I had
> previously had no troubles at all in a year of daily driver use. I have
> yet to figure out any reason for this. It kinda bugs me. I just
> finished doing a good exam of the cable/pulleys. I see no wear at all
> to the cable, in fact, I'm betting it was put in shortly before we
> bought the car a year and a half ago, simply because it looks new and
> shiny, even at the rear where it attaches to the linkage (if I wipe the
> road dust off it). I note now it has a tad of slack in it again, but
> just a teensy bit.
>
> Is it possible that this was a new cable on the car, and by putting it
> into regular use it streched some with use? Or am I nuts? The parking
> brake cable isn't as tight as it used to be either. Naturally, I use it
> pretty regularly too, and again, I can find no signs of damage/wear. I
> suppose it would change some with wear to the rear brakes, but aren't
> they self adjusting?
>
> Anyway, just bugging me that I haven't found a cause for the relatively
> large amount of clutch cable slack I picked up on the trip.
>
> Tim in Bovey
>
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