Clutch cable

[Papa Tango]

I'm wondering if a farm equipment dealer might be able to supply a cable that will work.  A lot of agricultural machinery uses "push-pull" control cables.  Just a thought.

[Ken W.]

Did you find the cable parts you were looking for ? If not,I have alot of cable and cable fastening parts. I use them for trapping. Let me know what you need.Pm me.

[1930]

Thanks for the replies, I purchased a VW Bus 1 cable last night, its a bit long at about 10 feet and its a bit smaller diam cable than I wanted to use but it will give me a bit more to play around with over the weekend.

I am interested in what you might have Ken. Pm sent

[lauver]

1930,

What is the distance you need to bridge your pedal assembly and your clutch throwout lever?  Just looking at the photo of your truck, I can't imagine why you would need a 10' cable. 

Also, a totally different approach you might want to consider for your application... hydraulics; a clutch master cylinder, slave cylinder, and hydraulic line.  This might be the easiest installation and would give you the power you need to move your clutch throwout lever.  It would also give you a light and smooth clutch pedal, a nice feature.

[1930]

Might be the pictures are a little mis-leading, its a pretty good sized truck but you are right, I dont need 10 feet but the 8 foot cable I posted pictures of is just long enough so that I dont put too hard of a bind on the cable from too tight of a loop.

I thought about hydraulic, looked into it a bit but at the time I thought I could make this cable deal work for alot less money, a hydraulic set-u would cost me at least 200 bucks all day long and if I can only get the right cable deal I will have less than 20 bucks probably ( plus of course nearly 30 hours of labor/intense thinking but we can never count that :) )

[1930]

Im gonna go to the somewhat local tractor store this weekend and poke around as well, If I dont have at least 50 hours in this thing I just wont feel right

[rusty]

>If I could find a clutch cable, any clutch cable that was at least 8 feet long

E-Brake cable....

[bgarrett]

I have run cable through a tight fitting nut then smashed the nut with a BFH and it never gave any trouble

[1930]

I got to know the cable I bought at Napa this A.M. Took about 3 hours but I am quite sure now it will work, started to take photos of my mods but then of course the first time around it didnt work, second time around I got closer ect, became too confusing.

Anyway its installed and it pretty much works great, I just need to re-inforce the firewall now where it passes, clutch is so stiff it really flexes that wall, spent rest of  day staring at it and trying different things, I do not want to weld to it any sort of plate because I dont want to screw up the paint so I think I have found a solution that may work with a pieces of aluminum acting as the reinforcement.

Will go to work tomm and see if I can scrounge a piece from something and then hopefully get it installed next weekend and that portion of the project will be finished for good.

I dont know how these mustangs are able to pull that fork without bending the firewall, I guess I musta missed a double plate or something when I was scrounging parts. Ive installed clutches in those things that will give your legs a work-out so there has gotta be something there.