On 7/12/06, Mike Collum <collum@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> For what it's worth, the clip was missing from the cable on my '85 when
> I got it in '02 and it's never, on its own, come out of the square hole
> in the grease cap.  The cable from the black box is pulled just enough
> toward the cap that it exerts its own pressure from the back.
>
> Mike

I would replace the clip. Last month I had an annoying thumping coming from
underneath. I had paranoid thoughts about bad CV's etc. It was only the
speedometer cable which came out of the brake backing plate. The cable was
whipping around in the tire carrier. I didn't notice that it had come out
because my speedo wasn't working at the time.

BenT