As anyone who has tried fixing the hot/cold heater control outer sheath cable clip knows, this is a pig of a job: there is very little room to work in as you need to put your hand through the heater panel/ashtray aperture, then try to force the clip into position.
I thought I would post my solution here, for anyone searching for advice in the future. I haven't found this idea in the archive.
Remove the radio and heater control panel and ashtray.
The outer sheath eventually gets torn or works loose from the clips, or the clips break; the heater control then does not work. The solution is to replace the sheath (buy from a bicycle shop); this is easy enough, just release the cable at the heater valve end, swap the sheath and replace the clip/tighten the ferrule*. The hard part is at the slider control end; my hand only just fits through the aperture and although I could locate the clip, I could not exert enough upward pressure to force it home. After 2 hours of turning the air Anglo-Saxon blue, and with cuts on my knuckles, wrists, fingers, I had an idea.
Get an off-cut of wood, about 9cm in length. This can be wedged upright in the aperture, one end under the clip; as the wedge is pushed in further upright, the clip is forced home; you will need to guide it in using your other hand working from above/behind perhaps with a small screwdriver. A five minute job**, in the end!
(*make sure that the slider is in the hot position, so that the sheath is correctly located; see photo; note the position of the heater valve levers so that the inner cable is located properly in the ferrule)
( **for the clip. The whole job probably took me 20-30 minutes of actual productive work!)
I thought I would post my solution here, for anyone searching for advice in the future. I haven't found this idea in the archive.
Remove the radio and heater control panel and ashtray.
The outer sheath eventually gets torn or works loose from the clips, or the clips break; the heater control then does not work. The solution is to replace the sheath (buy from a bicycle shop); this is easy enough, just release the cable at the heater valve end, swap the sheath and replace the clip/tighten the ferrule*. The hard part is at the slider control end; my hand only just fits through the aperture and although I could locate the clip, I could not exert enough upward pressure to force it home. After 2 hours of turning the air Anglo-Saxon blue, and with cuts on my knuckles, wrists, fingers, I had an idea.
Get an off-cut of wood, about 9cm in length. This can be wedged upright in the aperture, one end under the clip; as the wedge is pushed in further upright, the clip is forced home; you will need to guide it in using your other hand working from above/behind perhaps with a small screwdriver. A five minute job**, in the end!
(*make sure that the slider is in the hot position, so that the sheath is correctly located; see photo; note the position of the heater valve levers so that the inner cable is located properly in the ferrule)
( **for the clip. The whole job probably took me 20-30 minutes of actual productive work!)
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