Bonnet Cable – ahhh!

[Rickshaw]

Hope I do not have the problems with the bonnet grips / cables again BUT to ease the task of forcing fingers up to grab the cables splitter box in the future I have wrapped garden wire round each cable right against the box and then pushed the wires down beside the water bottle. I can now pull the wires to grab the box rather than tear fingers!
Other things done :-
• Ensured the slider block in the box is turned over and a spacer ( not tightly) placed between slider block and wing – all well greased. Cable ends cannot come out of slider by accident.
• Cable tie looped around box to ensure it does not , somehow , pop off the wing mount ( think this did happen in my recent problem.)

[75driver]

Originally Posted by Rickshaw

BUT to ease the task of forcing fingers up to grab the cables splitter box in the future I have wrapped garden wire round each cable right against the box and then pushed the wires down beside the water bottle. I can now pull the wires to grab the box rather than tear fingers!

I have done this too, on most of the fleet. But word of warning….on one of the cars I must have left the string too long, or not secured out of the way properly. One evening the string got tangled around the driveshaft and pulled the whole shebang out!😳😳


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[Arctic]

Originally Posted by Rickshaw

Other things done :-
• Ensured the slider block in the box is turned over and a spacer ( not tightly) placed between slider block and wing – all well greased. Cable ends cannot come out of slider by accident.
• Cable tie looped around box to ensure it does not , somehow , pop off the wing mount ( think this did happen in my recent problem.)

I did something the same but with cable ties, got the tip form crew member Scott

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The cable tie is then routed down behind the inspection shield in the wheel arch so one you remove it you can pull on the cable ties.
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