S40: - Guide: Replacing the Bonnet Release Cable - Page 2

kieran40 · Aug 28th, 2014, 16:11

Excellent guide and good idea liberate

Whagwan · Aug 28th, 2014, 16:14

Great little bodge, I like it! Practical and best of all got plenty of them hanging around...

Tilley · Mar 21st, 2016, 00:34

Did you post pic??

I can't see them.

tt82 · Mar 21st, 2016, 10:27

Added to Articles section.

If Hazium finds the original photo's, let me know and I'll see they get reatached.

neanderthal · Mar 21st, 2016, 13:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tilley

Did you post pic??

I can't see them.

I can't see pics in either section.

jreidv40 · Jan 10th, 2017, 15:08

Great info guys; found this thread after having worked out how to open my closed bonnet by barging in through the grill and taking the bolts of the lock mechanism off. Now it's time to replace the broken bonnet release cable.

Probably a dumb question, but for those who used a bicycle gear cable, does the cable have the end nipple attached when you are threading it through the sheath or does the nipple need to be added once you have the thinner cable through at the bonnet lock mechanism end?

I will be looking to buy such a cable this week and just want to check what I'm needing to get.

Worms · Jan 10th, 2017, 20:16

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Originally Posted by jreidv40

Great info guys; found this thread after having worked out how to open my closed bonnet by barging in through the grill and taking the bolts of the lock mechanism off. Now it's time to replace the broken bonnet release cable.

Probably a dumb question, but for those who used a bicycle gear cable, does the cable have the end nipple attached when you are threading it through the sheath or does the nipple need to be added once you have the thinner cable through at the bonnet lock mechanism end?

I will be looking to buy such a cable this week and just want to check what I'm needing to get.

Not sure I quite follow your question, but when I did this, the bike cable had the grommet on one end. I threaded from the cabin end and slotted the grommet into the release handle. I then cannibalised an old 13 amp plug and used the wire connection for the fuse holder to grip the cable at the release mechanism end.

Since I was then putting on a new grill, I looped the old cable round the release mechanism and left it hanging, so that if the bike cable goes, I still have an emergency back-up release that can be operated by fishing up behind the bumper. (Actually, I formed a loop through a length of old garden hose as pulling on just the wire risks cutting through hands).

Worms · Jan 11th, 2017, 05:54

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Originally Posted by Worms

Not sure I quite follow your question, but when I did this, the bike cable had the grommet on one end. I threaded from the cabin end and slotted the grommet into the release handle.

Grommet?! Sorry, I must have been tired when I wrote this last night! I don't know what the correct name for the welded knob on the end of the cable is, but it is most certainly not a grommet!

druid · Jan 11th, 2017, 13:09

Nipples.

jreidv40 · Jan 11th, 2017, 16:59

Thanks Worms. I like the idea of attaching a failsafe mechanism too, should it go again.

Grommet, Nipple => thingy :-)

Aug 28th, 2014, 16:14	#12
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Aug 28th, 2014, 16:11	#11
kieran40 I've Been Banned Last Online: Mar 4th, 2023 12:36 Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: paignton	Excellent guide and good idea liberate

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Tilley New Member Last Online: Nov 27th, 2016 21:22 Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: St. John's	Did you post pic?? I can't see them.

Jan 10th, 2017, 15:08	#16
jreidv40 New Member Last Online: Jan 11th, 2017 16:59 Join Date: Jan 2017 Location: Hillsborough	Great info guys; found this thread after having worked out how to open my closed bonnet by barging in through the grill and taking the bolts of the lock mechanism off. Now it's time to replace the broken bonnet release cable. Probably a dumb question, but for those who used a bicycle gear cable, does the cable have the end nipple attached when you are threading it through the sheath or does the nipple need to be added once you have the thinner cable through at the bonnet lock mechanism end? I will be looking to buy such a cable this week and just want to check what I'm needing to get.

Jan 11th, 2017, 16:59	#20
jreidv40 New Member Last Online: Jan 11th, 2017 16:59 Join Date: Jan 2017 Location: Hillsborough	Thanks Worms. I like the idea of attaching a failsafe mechanism too, should it go again. Grommet, Nipple => thingy :-)

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