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Subject: Re: Oddities
From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 22:55:39 +0100
In article <001001c1f9fd$9c4208e0$d7090150@u8p1p8>, William Davies 
<bill@rarebits4classics.co.uk> writes
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
>
>> Have you ever bought a replacement speedo drive cable?   Same problem.
>> You can't get the pre-assembled cable through the grommet in the
>> firewall without removing the connection from one end.

>    The trick is to remove the grommet and feed the cable through it, 
>then feed the cable through the hole in the bulkhead - you can then 
>slide the grommet into position,

I probably should have thought to buy a new grommet as well.   There was 
no way my old one was going to let the cable go through it - even off 
the car (believe me, I tried for a *long* time...).

ATB

-- 
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

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