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Paxy
20th August 2023, 01:06 PM
Hi brains trust,

i'm slowly ticking through repairs on my 1974 series 3 - was a diesel, now with 186.

when i picked it up there was a what looks like a cable sleeve fixed to the bulkhead on the drivers side that was only about a foot long and not connected to anything in the engine bay. In the cabin it is connected to an aluminium (i think) ferrule just below the dash on the firewall.

Can anyone tell me if it was an original bit of kit that is supposed to do something, or if it is just a remnant of a past agricultural upgrade?

thanks


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p38arover
20th August 2023, 02:55 PM
Pics?

JDNSW
20th August 2023, 04:01 PM
Guessing that it is the engine stop cable. The Series diesel engines have mechanical injection and the engine is stopped by a Bowden cable that pulls a lever on the injection pump. I suspect this is what you are looking at.

Paxy
23rd August 2023, 11:27 AM
Thanks guys. I thought I’d uploaded pics, turns out not so much. The other thought I’d had is if it was a choke cable. I saw one on a uk based YouTube vid after posting on the weekend. Will add pics when I’m back at a desk this evening.

akelly
23rd August 2023, 07:25 PM
well that's not in the right spot for the diesel stop cable, not does it look anything like that. Probably some owner modification.

Tins
23rd August 2023, 07:55 PM
Agreed. Not even LR were that crude locating things.