TheSamba.com :: View topic - Strange wire going out from the pan near the rear right axle

Tue Jul 17, 2012 8:59 am

I have found a wire that look like an accelerator cable. It's strange and it's going into the pan. It also has some kind of grommet.

Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:12 am

Heat exchanger cable. Attaches to the heat exchanger flap on your heater box. The cable should move when you pull your lever between your front seats.

Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:21 am

Tdog71 wrote: Heat exchanger cable. Attaches to the heat exchanger flap on your heater box. The cable should move when you pull your lever between your front seats.

Yep or depending on the year/type/origin/ of the car, turn the knob.

Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:32 am

In this pic it looks like it comes from the engine and goes forward, so it doesn't "look" like a heater cable. Does it have a flexible outer bowden cable too?
If it were your heater cable for the right, then there would be an identical one on the left as well. It would also come out of a steel tube welded to the frame horns.
It doesn't look original. Just follow each end and see where it goes. Maybe a past PO added an auxilary throttle cable, or used it on a manual choke carburetor. Is there a hole for an extra knob on the dash?

Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:45 am

To me it looks like the right side heater control cable, maybe with the guide spout broken, removed, or sealed.

Here is a left one form the gallery..

Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:01 am

It's a heater cable with one of these plugged into the tube.

http://www.wolfsburgwest.com/cart/DetailsList.cfm?ID=111711691

Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:41 am

If you look you will find one on the other side too!

Nice axle boot!

Wed Jul 18, 2012 3:27 pm

it was the heater wire. never used the heater because it's so hot here so it's the first time I saw this little cable