Volvo 480 Club Europe

As subject...

What a rubbish job! Took me an hour to un hook the cable from the pedal retainer.

Took me another hour to thread it back...

How do you do it quickly when you can't see where the cable enters through the bulkhead, and can't get your hands up there to thread the cable into the pedal retainer!

Bloody 480s!!!

I picked up a 480 from Crewe one time and it was sold because the clutch cable was goosed. Took a chance and brought down a replacement clutch cable and the end fitting. Turned out it was only a replacement for the end fitting that was needed did the job in under 20 mins in a car park!

I practiced it twice the day before first time took 40 mins the second under 30 mins.

Well, I did this job again, the other clutch cable started to fray and when I took it off, it well only held by four stands!

This time the job took me equally as long as last time three years later, and I have the same cuts on my hand because of the air vent diaphragm cutting in to me.

For future reference the trick was to loosen the retainer to a point where I could get the angle right to thread the cable through the hole. With the retainer at a right angle to the bulk head this job seems impossible...

Stephen

Well, I did it again.

This time using a longer cable from a 440 B18U (3470374), it works okay, the throw is the same, but if you decide to use an incorrect cable - be careful how you route it, make sure that you keep it away from the drive shaft.

I think that the clutch cables keep on failing because I try and make a hook from the new cable to try and get it into the retainer, which causes weakness. So this time I removed the retainer, attached the cable to it with the cable held straight, then fitted it back.

Sounds easy, but still a very fiddly job (no cuts on my hands this time).

Holy crap, you've had a rotten run of luck there!

I'm seriously thinking of trying to figure a way to convert to hydraulic at some point.