At 06:47 PM 3/11/2011, Jim Arnott wrote:
>Motorcycle cables pull. Boat cables push and pull. Automatic transmission
>cables push and pull. Though maybe not on a Vanagon.  I've not dug that deep
>into it.

Listen to the man.  Would have been nice if VW had when they set up
their heater controls.*  Morse are probably the world leader in
control cables that operate in both directions, and I'd be amazed if
our A/T cables didn't.  The Morse cable that operates the reversing
gear on Scamp is ten feet long with a U-bend in it and has been
operating in a salt water environment since 1963 with no
problems.  It's half an inch thick and exerts (at a guess) 40# or
more at the operating end.  Has a zerk fitting on each end.

*All right, that's not *totally* fair.  When they were new the
operating forces were low enough that they worked fine.  But poor
environmental sealing, possible bad choice of liner etc and lack of
periodic lubrication have certainly taken their toll, and
intrinsically it's a poor design.

Yours,
David