Re: 1941 Packard 160
Posted by HH56 On 2022/12/8 16:43:44
Those cables are starting to become rare and fairly expensive. If you do get another please don't throw that one away as I think it could be made serviceable with a sleeve and a collar -- granted, the repair would be a bit more involved than the lockout cable assys requiring the simpler and more often needed fix.
First photo shows the usual failure where the crimp holding the housing splits letting the cable push out. Second photo shows an ordinary 2 screw split shaft collar repairing the split. On this one I also used an extra collar and enlarged the hole in the collar so it could go closer to the body just to make the repair look more continuous. On yours because of the larger diameter of the attaching half of the broken off piece a sleeve could probably be sized to replace that extra collar containing a hole that is large enough to be able to slide up the cable in one piece. It would be made to fit over the body and the larger diameter of the broken end.
If one piece is not possible then a thin sleeve over the bracket assy and a collar like piece to go over the broken end piece with an OD same size as the lockout assy that would fit inside the sleeve. The sleeve and broken end or collar could be held together by epoxy and several small setscrews that were flush with the sleeve diameter so as to be as hidden as possible. A regular split collar would then complete the repair on the crimped end holding the cable housing.
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First photo shows the usual failure where the crimp holding the housing splits letting the cable push out. Second photo shows an ordinary 2 screw split shaft collar repairing the split. On this one I also used an extra collar and enlarged the hole in the collar so it could go closer to the body just to make the repair look more continuous. On yours because of the larger diameter of the attaching half of the broken off piece a sleeve could probably be sized to replace that extra collar containing a hole that is large enough to be able to slide up the cable in one piece. It would be made to fit over the body and the larger diameter of the broken end.
If one piece is not possible then a thin sleeve over the bracket assy and a collar like piece to go over the broken end piece with an OD same size as the lockout assy that would fit inside the sleeve. The sleeve and broken end or collar could be held together by epoxy and several small setscrews that were flush with the sleeve diameter so as to be as hidden as possible. A regular split collar would then complete the repair on the crimped end holding the cable housing.
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repaired.jpg (38.79 KB)
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