could someone post a pic of the correct routing of the speedometer cable in the engine-bay, please?

thanks all   sb

Ill second that request

I can take some photo's. Do you want the section behind the engine or somewhere else?

I meant to do this last night and I forgot.  I'll also try to get some pics.  

I just took these. Let me know if you need anymore. They are from a 280Z 77 model, but the routing should be close for the 240/260Z.

Here are the pictures from my 1/71 series 1 car.  I am 100% cerain that this is the factory speedo cable routing.

Dan

 

^ AZ-240z, your car is sooo clean and is that carpet underneath it?  Nothings too good for your baby,I understand.

thank you both! very helpful. i see some type of shielding from the steering shaft over the bell housing. was this for heat protection from the exhaust?

thank you both

Thanks Grannyknot, and, yes, the car sits on a mat of indoor/outdoor carpeting.  "Clean" is my 

mantra.

sweatybetty, the only shielding for the speedo cable is the orange rubber tubing that the cable

passes through.  I assume it protects the cable from chafing from vibration as well as a degree

of heat protection from the engine and exhaust.

Edited August 18, 20168 yr by AZ-240z

the orange tubing is OE on the 71 models?

neither of the earlier cars I have show this covering... maybe it's covered in grime. one is really bad.

 

are there any aftermarket cables that have the spring wrap around the transmission end?

 

also: firewall grommets. both cars i have access to at the shop have the firewall grommets inverted from how you have them here:

 

they're installed as innies instead of outies... hmmmm

Edited August 18, 20168 yr by Careless

On 18-8-2016 at 5:26 AM, sweatybetty said:

thank you both! very helpful. i see some type of shielding from the steering shaft over the bell housing. was this for heat protection from the exhaust?

thank you both

As far s I can tell, its heat protection for the section near the exhaust. It is not the original cable, but it is a genuine nissan cable I managed to get in 2012. The cable follows the route of the old one I replaced. Im regreting not replacing the grommet when I did. It fell apart shortly after fitting the cable.

Thanks everyone.  My cable is way off, ill reroute it