what clutch cable are you guys running??

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well i cant believe it. i screwed up another clutch cable setup. this is the second time the insides of clutch cable housing came out. the part that is inside the rubber housing. it has all the metal wires that keep it stiff throughout the entire setup. what the @#%@#$ is making them come out. nothing is rubbing. they are free to move as much as they want. i just bought this new one and its going back to the company cause it broke within 15 min of driving it.

anyone running one that is heavy duty and wont break. im sick of freakin changing this thing and spending money on it. gimme the name of a good one that is garanteed and wont break. thanx

 

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where did you get the cable from, the stock ones on our cars seem to last a long time so im guessing if it is an autozone or aftermarket one maybe its not made as good as one from ford would be? my friend went throguh two aftermarket ones in about a year.

 

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well i got one from a very very well-known parts/machine car shop. said they are made from the same company that makes the ford ones but these are adjustable because ford doesnt sell the adjustable ones apparently. i just dont understand why the housing keeps pulling out like that. there is no rubbing for that to happen.

 

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hey bud.
have you checked your grounds? if there is insufficient grounding from the motor to frame, etc, anything around that sorta conducts will be used (normally throttle cables and clutch cables).
just a long shot - im sure you knew it, but it is easy to forget when wrenching.

good luck.

 

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not sure exactly what you are saying....there are metal wire (pretty thick) inside of the clutch cable housing. well whatever the hell holds them in....gave out and the wires came out making too much slack in the cable due to it not being able to be tightened. this is ridiculous that this is two housings that have broken in the past week. i figured they would hold better than this. i missed ford's parts by 20 min when cb18201 told me to get a stocker (are they adjustable at all??) so i might have to wait until monday. this is killing me that im pretty much the only one that this has happened to

 

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i may not be following how your cable is breaking. the cable is attached to the trans (fork) and the interior of the car. if you have insufficient grounds on the motor-to-frame (remember, juice flows from ground to positive), grounds will start finding [otherwise] higher resistance means of conducting, often clutch cables and throttle cables (they are a very poor ground wire, but a ground wire when others are insufficient, nonetheless). that is what i was trying to convey. the result is normally a frayed metal winding (cable) or deterioration of the metal spiral around some cables.

on fox cables, the stock cables are not adjustable - you need a FWA. they are thought to be the best. ford racing does make an adjustable cable - im not sure how it performs.

good luck.

 

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well i have a firewall adjuster but lemme clarify a lil cause i guess its confusing a bit. the cable itself isnt fraying/breaking. there is the cable on the inside, a "layer" of metal wires keeping the whole setup firm then the outer rubber protection. well the cable seems to be pulling out the inside wires and making the stopper at the fire wall useless. it pulles the inside material out so that there is too much slack that even with the adjuster, i cannot tighten it up. i should take a pic right now to clear it up a lil but i dont feel like it this second. i will in a lil while tho. maybe i should just get a normal stock clutch cable and use my firewall adjuster from there. this is kinda hard to picture i know but ill take a pic or two and show whats up

 

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HazMat404 said:

well i have a firewall adjuster but lemme clarify a lil cause i guess its confusing a bit. the cable itself isnt fraying/breaking. there is the cable on the inside, a "layer" of metal wires keeping the whole setup firm then the outer rubber protection. well the cable seems to be pulling out the inside wires and making the stopper at the fire wall useless. it pulles the inside material out so that there is too much slack that even with the adjuster, i cannot tighten it up. i should take a pic right now to clear it up a lil but i dont feel like it this second. i will in a lil while tho. maybe i should just get a normal stock clutch cable and use my firewall adjuster from there. this is kinda hard to picture i know but ill take a pic or two and show whats up

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ok, i gotcha. my bad. i dont know what to tell ya, in that case. POS cables. LOL.
best bet might be an oem type cable. dallas mustang, MM, et al have them. generally around 30 bucks on a fox. good luck, bud. and sorry for my misunderstanding ya. bump.

 

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buy an FRPP adjustable clutch cable and quadrant. i must say, top stuff

 

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so i can just a direct replacement fox body clutch cable setup and it will work and i can screw around with it with my firewall adjuster?? i was just thinkin about goin to ford and dropping probably a dime or two and getting one of theirs. think id save a bunch goin with mm or something??

 

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oh yeah, for the fox oem cables, there was a rumor that they were being made overseas and the quality may have gone down. dont know first hand.

IIRC, Jason (90mustangGT) runs an adjustable ford racing cable. i could be wrong, but that is my recollection. if all else fails, you or i can PM and ask.....(though with the FWA, id rather run a stock style cable, but i have not gone through what you have).

 

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i agree with 17yroldstanger, buy the FRPP adjustable cable, really good quality piece, the only problem i had with mine was i had to swap the bracket off of the stock cable so it would clear the long tubes

 

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your cable problems could be from exhaust heat, that is what happened to my friends, i remember him telling me that now, the cheaper cables will tend to get weak from exhaust heat an do that, try a ford one an see if it works.

 

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well i ordered one from m/m and hopefully it will work out well. at the bottom the cable actually rubs the LT header. that is in the "area" of where the first one broke but the first was near the firewall and more than 4 feet away from the header. i couldnt imagine that it would break cause of the heat. i dunno if it was "cheap" or that something is making too much stress somewhere.

 

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quite a few have misrouted a cable and had it even too close to a header (let alone touching), and broke it.

nice work - sounds like you have the problem figured out, and have a new cable enroute.
good luck.

 

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I have heard good things about the Maximum Motorsports cable.

 

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I ran a stock one with a SVO quad. for a long time...then I wanted to try that UPR triple hook Quad. so I ordered that with their cable. Well 2 weeks after that, that P.O.S cable stretched and frayed...so I went back to the stock cable..been great to me for years.

Currently running: UPR triple hook quad. and stock cable

 

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I went to Jeg's, and picked up a Granetelli adjustable, cable, quadrant, and FW adjuster. It came as a package. Working out good so far.