Speedo cable problem

[steve911T]

Car is a 1970T. Symptoms were the sound from inside the tunnel like the cable was bad, which I assumed it was. A weird scraping sound and pulsing vibration was also caused by pulling up the emergency brake. So, ordered the cable from PPand other associated parts and spent 4 hours replacing the speedo cable. And, the noise is still there. Other symptoms are the same with the speedo needle moving in conjunction with speedo cable turning. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. One last thing is that the cable only had 2 areas inside the tunnel that held the speedo cable down, one in the front and one in the shifter opening. Steve

[Porboynz]

Did you replace the inner and the outer? Have you somehow looped the handbrake cable around the speedo outer? I fixed an issue where the speedo cable was bent more than it should by the metal cover that mounts at the front of the tunnel with 2 screws and provides a foot rest of sorts.

[steve911T]

Porboynz,

Thanks for the reply. What the final outcome of this was that it was not the cable at all, it was the right safety brake line that had somehow come out of it's while plastic holder near the right rear wheel and was actually rubbing on the outer cv joint. Took 10 minutes to fix. Meanwhile the new da*n speedo cable is causing the speedo needle to quiver when driving. The after market cable that PP sells is about 6-8 inches too long. Other than wasting 6 hours, it is fixed unless I deem it necessary to put the old speedo cable back in.

Steve