Clutch cable too short

Hello,

Don’t own a Jimny myself by my brother has an O2 soft top model and was claiming the clutch was getting a bit stiff. Decided I’d order him a new clutch cable and fit one for him considering he knows little about cars and I have a little experience tinkering with my classic mg.

Ordered an official cable from big Jimnys store and began the process. Was pretty simple until I tried connecting the new cable. The internal wire seems to be a good inch too short. The adjuster by the transmition is screwed out all the way but I can only just get the lip of the metal end over the lever and even with forcing the lever arm can not get anough movement to get the cable connected. Even if I could there would be no free play at all. The old cable is the same length but feel the only reason that it just fits is as some of the rubber seals are pretty warn and compressed and the rubber ring inside the pin fitting thing on the clutch pedal end has totally warn away. Combined with a little stretching from wear makes it just long enough.

Any ideas? I tried to adjust the clutch pedal stop bolt but can’t for the life of me get any spanner or anything in the space up behind the pedals. I’m not sure if this would give that much extra cable though as there is only so much the fitting that connects to the pedal can move until it hits the other rubber fitting on the cable....

Any help would be much appreciated

Lewis

Recheck the rubber insulator on the cable where it locates in the bulkhead bracket....they can be a bugger if the rubber snarls.

Yup. Pretty sure it is sitting in there flush.
Only way I could think of to get any extra cable was to remove the rubber parts completely but thought that probably isn’t advisable...

Another thought I had was...is the clutch release arm sitting nicely on the release bearing?

I paid £27 for the worlds longest clutch cable last week.....fitted snug.

How would I check this? The arm itself seems normally positioned as to where I would expected it to be...

Yeah I don’t think it’s the cable. Picked up a cheap one for the left hand drive vehicles. The cable was another foot longer but the actual play at each end was the same and couldn’t get that to fit either. Thought must be the cable but this one is the same.

If you managed to get one with longer loose cable at each end I’d be interested in where you picked it up! But it seems the two types I’ve found just are longer but keep the same ratio of sleeve to internal cable so doesn’t help...

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Lewberry6 wrote: How would I check this? The arm itself seems normally positioned as to where I would expected it to be...

Yeah I don’t think it’s the cable. Picked up a cheap one for the left hand drive vehicles. The cable was another foot longer but the actual play at each end was the same and couldn’t get that to fit either. Thought must be the cable but this one is the same.

If you managed to get one with longer loose cable at each end I’d be interested in where you picked it up! But it seems the two types I’ve found just are longer but keep the same ratio of sleeve to internal cable so doesn’t help...

I doubt it was longer....although I would be willing to measure it as it's here for a while.... I actually welded a visitors lhd Jimny bracket last year.....possibly the one I've linked is the one for that vehicle?


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