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

[William Jahn]

Jim the cable on Ebay is similar to the ones in my car except the one end
is not like a spring it's just like the throttle cable at the pedal end the
spring is a separate spring in mine. Trust me the people who did my seats
are in no way equipped or inclined to make new cables. They are the same
cables that came with this car and the left seat was always an issue
because they put it all back the same way they took them apart . They did
this because I sent one the to them so I could drive the car then put the
passenger seat on the drivers side to drive the car and they then did the
driver seat. They just put the cables back how they saw they were they
couldn't compare both seats.

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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> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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