R32 Speedo Cable Has Had The End Pulled Out

[Rolls]

My speedo cable seems to have fallen inside the plug, there is a lubed up bit of plastic that I can pull out and the cable itself seems to be recessed about 1 inch down the cable and I can't grab it with pliers. What has gone wrong with the cable? Is it meant to be this far inside the plug (dash end of the plug) and how do I reattached the piece of plastic to it with the teeth on the end so I can re-use it?

I'm a bit confused how the plug on the end attaches and I can get it all back together, for some reason it just stopped working and when I pulled it out of the cluster it just seemed to fall apart.

[GTSBoy]

Cable is probably snapped. Then the two broken ends have overlapped by about the inch that you have lost.

[Duncan]

It's a pretty common failure....time for a new or secondhand replacement...

[White GTS-T]

It may not be broken, the cable does 'travel' a bit through its outer casing. Although, from memory, there should be a grommet to stop the cable from falling back down through the casing to a certain point. Perhaps that has fallen off? Pull it off at the gearbox and push the cable back through a bit and try that. Failing that, don't bother with a second hand one. A new genuine one is cheap, $80-$100, and its not the kind of job you want to have to do twice, after you realise that the second hand one you just put in doesn't work, or worse, that the cable has 'whip', causing the speedo to bounce erratically at certain speeds.

[GTSBoy]

IME using the R32 cable with the Navara sender tends to mean you have to curve the cable through a fairly mean radius near the gearbox and chassis rail to get it all together, and this results in whip regardless. My speedo was dead stable (but had a small error) with the R32 gearbox but has a small wiggle at all speeds (although it is spot on accurate, so who cares).

Rolls has Neo conversion, so he might have discovered how long an old R32 cable can work with the extra strain on it.

[Rolls]

still got a 20 box though. Apparently VL commodore is the same and has a metal end that is stronger so might try that

cheers guys

[iruvyouskyrine]

I had the same problem as GTSboy, very small radius bend in the cable and now my speedo jumps around a bit. Nothing major, just annoying when you know it worked fine beforehand.

i guess that's the price of having an RB25 in an R32.

[Rolls]

can anyone confirm if the VL commodore speedo cable is the same length and fittings?