Author Topic: open exhaust near transmission cable, is this heat safe?  (Read 2843 times)

Offline Macaroni_Sackaroni

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open exhaust near transmission cable, is this heat safe?
« on: November 22, 2016, 02:59:29 pm »
Don't care about the motor so I opened my headers for fun.
I think this is the shift linkage cable but its pretty close to the exhaust end.

Worried it might start melting because this happened to my go kart. Before I bought it the guy setup the throttle cable directly in-front of the exhaust opening ...lol  and the plastic on the throttle cable melted a little so I rerouted it.
Cant really reroute the this transmission cable but If needed I think I can put a little pipe on the end so it extends away from the cable.




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Re: open exhaust near transmission cable, is this heat safe?
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2016, 04:59:22 pm »
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Offline Stewart G Griffin

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Re: open exhaust near transmission cable, is this heat safe?
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2016, 09:51:54 am »
i don't like how it's so close to the speedo cable as well as the e-brake cable.  Can you put some heat shield wrap around the speedo cable, like:

http://www.taylorvertex.com/product-search/

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Re: open exhaust near transmission cable, is this heat safe?
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2016, 03:18:17 pm »
i don't like how it's so close to the speedo cable as well as the e-brake cable.  Can you put some heat shield wrap around the speedo cable, like:

http://www.taylorvertex.com/product-search/

i dont like it either.

yeah i actually had a metal heat shield i pulled off a ford ranger and the other day i was looking at it and said "ill prob never need this" and threw it away. prob would have been perfect for this could have just welded it right on.

i dont think the e-brake is at risk since this is how the truck was setup before i bought it. plus its metal its not going to get that hot.
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