[T3] Have another question on 73 T-3 front seat cable

[William Jahn]

Jim , the cables in this 73 are not made up ones . There is a cover on one.
Read my post I sent little over 1/2 hour ago. I explained everything.

On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 3:12 PM Jim Adney <jadney at vwtype3.org> wrote:

> On 31 Dec 2019 at 22:16, William Jahn wrote:
>
> >  I don't see any housing over the cables on either side,
>
> I found my cable, and I said a few wrong things about it earlier.
>
> The housing covers most of the cable. There's less than 1" of travel
> available. The housing has anchor tabs at both ends, each intended to be
> held down with a screw, and one of them has a slotted hole which looks
> like
> an adjustment. The wire is solid, not stranded, and has fittings attached
> at
> both ends, so you can't remove the housing without cutting the wire.
>
> If I had to guess, I'd guess that the people who recovered your seats cut
> the
> OE wire because it attached the seat bottom to the seat back, and it was
> going to be hard to take it apart. Then they made up something to replace
> the part they destroyed. It may have worked for awhile but eventually
> failed
> on the L seat because that one got used much more often.
>
> OTOH, there's a puzzle here. The part number, taken from my NOS cable
> purchased in 1981, is 311 881 257, but that number does not appear in my
> parts book at all, and there's nothing similar shown. All the other late
> seat
> parts ARE shown. That number DOES appear in my '84 and '89 price lists. I
> would check my microfilm, but I no longer have a way to view it. My best
> magnifier is not strong enough.
>
> Without the parts book entry, I can't prove when this cable was used, but
> I'm
> pretty sure it was used on all the late front seats, from mid-72-on.
> Nevertheless, it's possible that this is a revised part, meant to replace
> an
> earlier part, or collection of parts, that was found to be troublesome.
>
> I have another '73 here that I should look at.
>
> I found one of these cables on German ebay:
>
> https://is.gd/HUfamr
>
> and, yes, that's exactly what I have.
>
> It looks like this cable would not function correctly if one of the
> housing fixing
> screws had fallen out, or if it had simply slipped out of adjustment.
> OTOH, if
> you have a stranded cable, then someone has replaced this part with
> something makeshift and all bets are off.
>
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