There is no cable to cut. It is a casted hole that seems to feed fluid through a plastic tube assemble. I say seems, because when removing the tails housing it knocked the palstic tube out of "whereever it goes".

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1980 300TD-T (82 Turbo and Trans) 159,000 Miles "Jackie-O"
1983 300SD 272,000 Miles "Aristotle"
1987 Jeep Wagoneer Limited - keeps the MB's off the ice and out of the snow
1994 BMW 530it