‘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!
Full Version: Broken clutch cable
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.
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.
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.
Interesting ; where do you attach the multimeter probes ? Anywhere on the chassis
I’ve been a victim of this. Mine started with the clutch cable stretching then snap.
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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