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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 12:08 pm    Post subject: accelerator cable conduit from pan? Reply with quote

Pulled my engine today Smile ..I was looking at things and noticed the accelerator cable as it exits the body was rubbing into the upgraded tunnel tranny on the side....its pretty deep and it wants to catch. Was there a metal conduit or something that protects it as it exits the pan? If not..what's your thoughts to remedy this?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 12:12 pm    Post subject: Re: accelerator cable conduit from pan? Reply with quote

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Pulled my engine today Smile ..I was looking at things and noticed the accelerator cable as it exits the body was rubbing into the upgraded tunnel tranny on the side....its pretty deep and it wants to catch. Was there a metal conduit or something that protects it as it exits the pan? If not..what's your thoughts to remedy this?


Something like this?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 12:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes..just like that. Did my 53 have one as standard..or is this something I will have to fashion myself. Not too sure how the one from ww fits from the body pan grommet to the back of the rear engine tin...unless I trim or let it float free? Better than getting hung up into the side of the tunnel tranny!
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 12:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

fatbeetle wrote:
Yes..just like that. Did my 53 have one as standard..or is this something I will have to fashion myself. Not too sure how the one from ww fits from the body pan grommet to the back of the rear engine tin...unless I trim or let it float free? Better than getting hung up into the side of the tunnel tranny!

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 12:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice!!! Thank you! !! I'm going to do just that. ..I noticed that ww says it's for s 66 and up. .. but I'm sssuming this should fit anyway. ....I didn't see anything that was prior to 66 specific..if anyone knows another source please let me know so I can get the correct one for my 53.. thanks again! !!!!
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 5:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They were not used on 53s, the wire just ran bare up to the engine.

My understanding is that, in 1966, the accelerator wire became a braided wire instead of a solid wire.

So a solid wire may not move smoothly through the tubing.
But they can work, I added one to my '61 and it works fine.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 6:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i just ordered the tubing from ww...i hope it works out.. the cable being solid wire and not braided explains how the tranny got that deep cut in the side without ever fraying...thankfully!! Thanks!
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 7:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Other people have used solid plastic plumbing tubing, such as the kind one would use to plumb in a refrigerator ice maker. There was also a small wire bridge used by VW attached to the front of the transaxle, which moved the accelerator cable away enough to clear the transaxle.

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