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Posted by: ctc911ctc Jun 20 2020, 01:13 PM

‘74, 2.0

When we got her I inspected the entire car, replaced/rebuilt just about everything that was critical, my son loves the car, drives it all of the time and was on his way to his favorite fishing hole (ah to be 18 again) when he calls and says: the clutch cable broke!

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Looks like it broke in the middle!

Posted by: Superhawk996 Jun 20 2020, 01:33 PM

Check condition of body to transmission ground strap.

Needs to be a zero ohm connection

When this ground strap is missing or high resistance, the clutch and throttle cables become the ground when starting.

This crates a lot of heat in the cables and leads to the type of failure you have - sudden failure without warning.

Posted by: porschetub Jun 20 2020, 02:48 PM

QUOTE(Superhawk996 @ Jun 21 2020, 07:33 AM)

Check condition of body to transmission ground strap.

Needs to be a zero ohm connection

When this ground strap is missing or high resistance, the clutch and throttle cables become the ground when starting.

This crates a lot of heat in the cables and leads to the type of failure you have - sudden failure without warning.

probably not high tensile after being heat cycled.

Posted by: jim_hoyland Jun 20 2020, 06:35 PM

Interesting ; where do you attach the multimeter probes ? Anywhere on the chassis

Posted by: Mikey914 Jun 21 2020, 12:08 AM

I’ve been a victim of this. Mine started with the clutch cable stretching then snap.

Posted by: fiacra Jun 21 2020, 08:21 AM

QUOTE(jim_hoyland @ Jun 20 2020, 05:35 PM)

Interesting ; where do you attach the multimeter probes ? Anywhere on the chassis

This was addressed in a recent thread, although with a slightly different flavor of this problem. Hope this helps.
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=346626

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