Help please! How does this clutch cable disconnect?

[H.G.P.]

I can't find any examples of this clutch cable connection/disconnection anywhere. The end (by the trans.), has as from pic #1 a white "bushing", in it.

The only nut I see is about 5 inches up the cable (pic 2), but turns freely in either direction and appears to do nothing.

How do I disconnect the cable from the transmission?

Thanks!!!

[H.G.P.]

I've parts diagrams, and then a parts catalog, and the area I believe is what I understand as the "Rear Trunion"

But mine, as in the picture, does not have a "nut", but more of an "nut with an elongation extention" as one unit. The join is made in wrap around fashion, so to speak, with the "plastic"??, bushing lodged in there.

It appears if I can just slacken the cable some how, the cable would just slide out from the rear. But the cable is too tight for this.

Here's another pic of the trunion area, where the cable is, I cannot figure out how to remove.

[grant lyon]

Example? check out the haynes manual for a '65 to '81. see page 90. the instructions indicate to adjust the cable you adjust at the release lever with the nut in your photo #2, then if you need to tighten up more you can adjust at the clutch pedal clevis. fwiw freeplay at the clutch pedal should be 1". looks to me if you just back off the cable tension and the cable fitting would slide out of the arm to the rear as you say. put another way, with the cable no longer tensioned the crossways bar (90deg to cable axis) is held into the two hooked fingers of the arm simply by tension. an expert can chime in, as I have a freak '76 cable arrangement. just scanned the manual out of interest. hope this helps.

[grant lyon]

one other thought - again fwiw since i don't have this flavor cable. if the extended nut and the crossway bar/bush don't rotate wrt the cable, maybe you have jammed fitting or an iMproved one piece design. for instance vice grips on that externder barrel could possibly jam the assembly. it the nut an all would still need to unscrew to get the nut off the cable, right? why not loosen the cable completely at the clutch pedal side (count turns for records) and then figure out how the extended adjustment nut fitting works without tension on it?

[H.G.P.]

Thanks for the ideas, you've given me renewed hope! I just originally just passed over page 90 in Haynes because the nut in photo figure 4.4 I tried to turn, and all that happens when I turn it is that the cable turns along with it. Thus nothing gets loose.

Your count the revolutions at the pedal idea I like. I'll try that next.

(additional edit: I also cannot tell from my rear trunion "when all available adjustment at the release lever has been taken up" either..as Haynes sites p. 90 1.)

[H.G.P.]

Also on the rear trunion by the transmission, I have not attempted to use vise grips on the extended barrel (pic #1 above), as I am uncertain as whether it is the normal method to loosen this barrel nut.

If someone could chime in the correct technique here would be appreciated.

Thanks