It's a Ford Racing piece, but yes, it's a stock-type cable.

 

50 Resto has them too

http://www.latemodelrestoration.com/iwwida.pvx?;item?item_no=LRS-7553DR 1&comp=LRS

 

They are all Chinese junk now.

 

Umm maybe call FORD? Thats where I got mine.

 

Ford discontinued it years ago.They buy them from local auto parts store .

 

no they didn't i bought one from ford this past spring. It was a day away but he didn't say ford discontinued it they just didn't stock it.

 

Ford did discontinue it .They may have now outsourced it but it is not like the original. The non originals have a silver finish on the bracket the original had a cadnium plating.

 

Maybe you are right I never put it on my car. My pressure plate blew apart so the tranny is out and I am going to replace it when I put the new clutch in the car. Hell the part came in a ford box and even said made in mexico like every other ford part does, lol.

 

I've gone through 4 of those Ford Racing cables over the years. The first two lasted like 5-6 years and about 80-100K miles city driving each. The last two did not last long at all. One the quadrant end slowly frayed apart after a couple of years until it snapped off. The second collapsed, in less than a year, right by the firewall. So this time I went with the Maximum Motorsports Ford OEM replacement cable in their kit. MUCH better cable IMO plus it is longer to avoid the exhaust.

Maybe I got a bad one or something, but I don't know.

 

Yes! The distinguishing detail I gave was to tell you if it was an original OEM part. The Ford Racing one is as big of piece of crap as the Zoom adjustable.

 

So the 1 at Summit is a good 1 to buy?

 

This is where I got my OEM cable for $49. He is on the site a bunch too.

http://www.performancepartsinc.com/int_ext.htm

Barry

 

Thanks Barry... Contrary to what others have mentioned, our cables were purchased back when Ford (clutch cable) production was sourced from Canada and are not the Chinese cables sold elsewhere as OEM.

 

Last I heard was that the Ford OEM foxbody cables were now being made in Taiwan but the quality is supposedly still there.Who knows for sure?

Hard to trust anything made these days.

Btw,the Ford foxbody OEM cable lists for $284 at the Ford dealer in Toronto.
How`s that for premium ass rape?

I still have the original cable with 115,000 miles.
I dread the day it breaks.

 

Are the OEM foxbody cables the Ford dealer sells any better than the Ford Racing non adjustable cable or are they the same?

 

MM has some good cables too. I've had a Steeda adjustable for quite sometime and its still working well. The last adjustable I had was garbage though....not sure who made it or where it came from as it was on my car when I got it

 

Here is the cable that I got from Ford this past april. Now this is for a 9495 so maybe its still a ford cable.

 

FYI, the 50 resto cable is the made in israel piece that you find in the parts stores...

MFE is correct, although made in taiwan, it's the exact same construction as before, and is hands down the strongest cable made on the market, period.

Having said that, i've had experience with every cable on the market, and successful implementation involves several different things.

1. Although the adjustable cables are easily inferior in construction, their ultimate failure is not because of the way their made, rather it's the additional length. The adj cables are a couple of inches longer than the OEM non adjustable cable. It is this simple fact alone that caused me hell. This extra length still has to be routed the exact same way as stock. When routed this way, the cable is bent in a tighter arc, causing higher pedal pressure, binding, and wear, and eventual failure. Unfortunately there is no way to route the adj cable to provide a wider arc, it's just not long enough.

2.Routing is everything. I ran a cheap autozone made in israel cable forever without issues. The very first thing most people do is misroute the cable. There are only two different ways to route a stock cable The factory way is to the left of the motor mount, on top of the steering rack, and under the car to the bell. you can also route it under the motor mount and to the bell, but that's it. Most route it above the motor mount, inside the engine bay and to the bell. this is what is causing failure of the cables!!

3. There are different cables available. The 96+ cable is the "universal" cable that maximum motorsports sells. This cable is several inches longer than the fox cable, and allows a complete re-routing of the cable path. This is handy for those of you with long tubes. You can actually route it all the way forward of the oil filter, then down under the car, clearing the headers up top by a long margin.

4. I run an ADJUSTABLE 96+ cable on my 66 mustang/t5 setup and have absolutely no issues. I'm using a king cobra clutch, and pedal effort is so light, I can literally depress the clutch with my hand with little effort.

Anyhow, back to the point, the ford cable is still the best and strongest on the market...know your cable info, and you'll never have an issue with one breaking.

 

when I get my stock cable out I will take a picture of the two side by since and see how the "Taiwanese" one looks compared to the stocker. I'm also interested to see how stretched the factory one is with 120k on it compared to the new one. MFE knows his ####. Anyway didn't you have a lot more posts the last time I checked MFE?

 

Anyway didn't you have a lot more posts the last time I checked MFE?

His post-o-meter must have rolled over! :rofl:

 

Can't really tell from the outside. It's the inside that matters, and here's what separates the adjustables from the factory style, no matter where they're made.

Adjustable on the top...that's every adjustable, OEM on the bottom, and that's every OEM one no matter where it's made unless chest-thumper boy up here manages to prove otherwise.

That's why the OEM style makes your clutch feel about 100 lbs lighter than the adjustables do.

 

You have proven you can post some pictures.They do not last as long ,handle heat or have the same feel as the originals. Your pictures have not proven anything.They are not the same quality as the original.

 

Is the Ford dealer non adjustable foxbody cable the same as the non adjustable Ford Racing cable?

The Ford dealer charges a lot more than Ford Racing.

 

I used the MM kit which comes with an OEM FORD universal cable which is significantly longer than the stock one.

From a previous thread.

The MM clutch cable kit showed up today. I am really happy with it. The clutch feels so much better now.

It is pretty straightforward to install. You must pull the front seat out and make sure you don't loose the little clips that hold the stock quadrant and prawl on since you must reuse them. I was a little worried about the extra clutch cable length but it routes just fine. I am also very happy that I bought the MM clutch cable that was already modified for use with the firewall adjuster. It look like a PITA to modify it yourself. I was unable to use the bracket that bolts the cable to the frame but that is no big deal.

In my case I am not sure what happened first. After installing the new stuff I realize my clutch was never disengaging since I put it back together. I think my stock cable had become stretched and become to long. I was not able to use the stock quadrant to adjust it fully. About 3 weeks ago the stock quadrant started to slip on me so I was forced to stomp on the pedal a lot more in a effort to get it to self adjust to even be able to drive it at all. I guess that is what got the cable.

 

what did you have to modify to make the cable work with the firewall adjuster? Are you talking about those little plastic tabs? If you are that was simple it took about 2mins.

 

To add to what Jeremy said. Another common cause of the clutch cable failing has nothing to do with the clutch cable construction itself. Incorrect quadrant design will cause failure of the clutch cable at the firewall end. There are about four different aspects of the quadrant design that must be correct to avoid premature failure of any clutch cable.

 

I went through 2 different adjustable cables after the previous owners quadrant broke (cheap plastic/alum alloy ####) so I bought the Steeda quad and firewall adjuster and the Ford Racing non-adjustable cable from Summit. This turned out to make that King Cobra 10x easier to pound than any adjustable I had.

As for your question, it's a great cable, feel good to know it's quality, despite the bickering by some.

 

Boy it is getting hot in here!

FWIW, the third Ford Racing $49 OEM clutch cable I bought in about 2004 that lasted me about 2 years frayed just like Marlin's did in the pics he posted, but the end of mine completely popped off. It could have been an issue with the quadrant, but the other two cables I used before lasted a LOT longer with the same setup. The two prior cables were replaced due to fraying inside the cable (it became hard to even move the cable by hand when it was disconnected, NO visible fraying on ends) and the other one was starting to fray at one of the ends, a couple of the strands came loose.

I wish I had pics of the 4th Ford Racing cable that split on the side right below the firewall and totally collapsed rendering the clutch inoperable. The failure occurred less than a year after I replaced the 3rd frayed one. Maybe that one was defective, but after having two fail in less than a years time, I had enough. So for now, the OEM Maximum Motorsports is the only one I will use. I changed to the MM quadrant also.

 

I wish I had pics of the 4th Ford Racing cable that split on the side right below the firewall and totally collapsed rendering the clutch inoperable. The failure occurred less than a year after I replaced the 3rd frayed one.

Damn dude, if your luck with cables is that bad I'd start wondering if you're just snakebit or if you have a problem with your installation...

 

fyi, the oem maximum motorsports IS the oem ford cable...same piece

 

Hence the OEM and why they sell its as such.I have never personaly used theirs and wasnt speaking of it.Only of what the dealer tried to sell me 4-5yrs ago stating they have been discontinued. Also with the Ford Racing crap for the last 8yrs atleast, plus numerous others I have tried.

 

sorry man, with all due respect, you're wrong on cable construction.

Until you prove otherwise, I'm going with some of the most experience people in the mustang world, cobra jet NJ and MFE.......(and I'd like to think myself too, lol)

 

Read what MM says on thier website. Now what you are not realizing is Ford is not using the OEM supplier anymore and hasnt for a long time. MM is using the OEM supplier and is why the are emphasizing as OEM. Why do you think they arent saying Ford cable?

But you will believe what you choose.

 

ya I was gonna say that MM cable looks a lot like the one I posted