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On 27 Oct 97, Everett Barnes wrote:
> The heater cable going to my passenger side heater box snapped a few
> days ago, leaving the tip of the cable on the heater box. I have a
> question:
>
> 1. I assume my best course of action is to replace the entire cable,
> so I took a look at where it attaches to the control in between the
> 2 front seats. It looks like both cables go through 1 tube and are
> crimped together up front? Do I have to replace both cables? How
> do I pull it out since it doesn't seem like the ends of both cables,
> where they attach to the heater boxes, would fit through the tube at
> the same time?
The heater cable(s) come as a pair and must be installed as such.
Each side runs through a different tube and the two sides are
different lengths. You must route the correct wire through the
correct tube or the lengths won't come out right at the heat
exchangers. Grease the wires as you install them.
Anyone reading this should make a note in their Bentley manual on
page 9-31 that the longer wire goes in the upper tube. This is
useful info that Bentley left out.
I have usually found that the wires are crimped into the cranked tube
at the control end in the wrong over/under orientation and have to be
crossed over in use. Has anyone else noticed this?
Jim
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Melissa Kepner Jim Adney
Laura Kepner-Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin
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