speedometer cable routing

[lojeti]

I have put in two new cable and after 1 min or running they broke, do anyone know where it is routed as I must be routing it wrong and causing a bind that is my guest as to why it is breaking.

[darpien]

the cable goes from the tranny up and through the fire wall that's the easy place to trace it to. It then goes strait to the back of the instrument cluster that's about it. I don't know how it was two since it should only be one cable going from the tranny strait to the back of the cluster. You need to lubricate it well that may be why it broke.

[fastiva1988]

ive been havin the same problem they are breaking right at the connector going into the cluster. i ahvent lubricated them tho. but as soon as i get going i hear clunk clunk snappp

[GenevaDirt]

are we talking after doing a speedo/tach swap or just the regular speedo?

[renny10n]

are we talking after doing a speedo/tach swap or just the regular speedo?

Yeah, I found out the hard way doing the tach swap. Tried fitting the cluster back in with the cable running thru the stock center tunnel position. Talk about 30 to 45 min. of fustration!!!!!! Until I compared the two instrument clusters.....duh! found that the speedo drive on the tach combo is set more to the right.

So after rerouting the speedo cable over to the right, it was a straight shot deal & everything fit into place. Only problem now, I have the bouncing/dancing speedo needle syndrom( probably due to a bend/kink in the cable I caused from forcing it....anyways?)

[fastiva1988]

well thats just... i had the 4spd tranny and its an L i dunno if its the stock cluster or not. Speedo didnt work when i bought it. but as far as i know everything is stock
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