Drivetrain Speedometer Shop used grease, need to clean cable?

[bruno]

Local speedo shop used what I think is Lucas Oil Red N Tacky on my new cable and housing. From what I've read on this site people say to use graphite only. I was hoping to get a couple things confirmed.

1. Should I worry about the grease? If so, would spraying carb cleaner down the housing and letting it drip dry work well enough?

2. From Jrichkers posts it seems he's recommends using DRY graphite, and not graphite OIL. Is that correct?

I've taken this damn cluster and speedo cable off too many times. I want to make sure it goes back together correctly so I don't have to mess with it any more.

Thanks in advance.

Bruno

 

[General karthief]

I would recommend that, I would blow compressed air through it, maybe do it a few times, that stuff is pretty sticky, are you having problems with the speedometer?

 

[bruno]

Hi Kartheif - is the recommendation for DRY graphite or graphite OIL? Ill post the 2 different kinds at the end of this post.

Yep. Had speedo rebuilt to fix bounce. Installed it and still had slight shake. Traced the issue to the new cable I bought online. He then built me a new cable and housing, but used the grease instead.

 

[General karthief]

I don't know about using grease, I would think it will crawl up the cable and gum up the speedometer head but that's just my thoughts. Here it has always been the dry graphite recommendation

 

[Mustang5L5]

ATF tends to leak into the cable through the VSS if equipped. Unsure how far up the cable it makes due to gravity though.

You can pull one end through if one side isn't connected and pull the innet cable out and wipe it down.

I run my cables dry

 

[bruno]

Thanks guys. I'll clean out the cable and use the dry graphite.