Anyone replace a speedo cable? It's for a friend's '87 Camaro... the owner says he's had speedo cables break before, and the Camaro's speedometer is acting like the other cars. It looks like a simple enough job... I've undone the cable before at the trans, but never at the cluster. Does the book really show it as it is? As in, the cable goes thru a grommet in the firewall and straight back to the speedometer? Do I need to re-use the original grommet, or will there be a new one affixed to the new cable?

 

Yea, unscrew from both ends and pull out. I helped install 2 of these, one came from GM and it has grommet, one came from a parts store no grommet. Id say either way salvage that grommet.

 

Easy to do, but small hands help. I would connect it at the dash first, feed it through to the tranny. I tried doing it the other way first and couldn't.

 

Great; thanks for the tips!