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Originally Posted by jbach36
I unhooked the cable by the brake as one of the DIY articles said to do. There wasn't much slack on that at all; it was hard even to get it out of the little clamp. I started thinking maybe that's why it didn't come out, maybe there was supposed to be more slack?
Jeff
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Jeff,
First, my car doesn't have a speedo cable, so no help there (it's electronic). That said, from everything I've read, they are otherwise identical. I say give up on the home-made jobbies. I tried and tried. Not worth screwing it up. I'm not saying it can't be done, but it takes a hell of a pull, and you'll have more confidence to do it with the right tools. Plus, they're cheap. When I was buying my MB hooks, the parts guy winced when I told him I had been trying it with DIY tools. Said he's sold a number of clusters to people who had broken the corners off theirs...
Same procedure as the DIY instrutions. Kinda upper leff/right corners, there is a row of catch points toward the back of the cluster that I don't think the coat hanger really engages very well because of the relative thickness of the wire. With the MB tools, because the wire on those is so thin, you can probe around with them, and feel the catch points. Once you have the cluster coming your way, you can grab it with your fingers.
Pretty amazing the bright minds at MB simply jammed the thing in there...WTF?
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07-28-2006, 03:42 PM
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