1984 Trans AM 305, 700R4.
My car has cruise control & I want to lube the cables.
Is the cable assembly at the speedometer locked (pressure clipped) to it? Or can I remove the cable at the cruise box & pull cable from there?
Or do i have to remove from the speed head if clipped and pull from there??
To lube the cable from cruise box to tranny, can I pull the cable at the box or do I have to pull it at the tranny?
Been checking a few thread & have not gathered sufficient info.

 

It has the usual clip at the cluster so you'll need to pop the cluster out. The inner pulls out from the cluster end, not the cruise regulator end.

The cable inner will pull between the regulator and transmission from the regulator end.

Usual cause of bouncing needles, noise, etc. with that regulator, is the bearings for the spinning copper discs inside there, wearing out, and letting the discs rub each other. If you pop it open and it's full of copper dust then that's where the bouncing and noise and whatnot are all coming from, as well as why the cruise doesn't work right. (if it works at all)

 

Tkx.
Car has 26000 miles. Cruise control does work but there is a noise. If I open up the regulator and find the dust, are parts available? Will relube & clean cables. The check regulator

 

Regulator parts weren't available 25 or 30 years ago, last time I tried to fix one. I couldn't even find a new whole one, so I ended up getting one at the junkyard outta some other model of car, which didn't quite match my car exactly enough and made it "hunt" (applied the gas too hard when the car slowed down and let off too much when it was going to fast). There were acoupla speedo places that said they could fix it at that time but their prices were completely out of my range. All that might have changed since then; I have no idea.