omnitonic
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- First Name
- Michael
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- Apr 20, 2021
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- Southwest Virginia
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- 2021 JLU Willys in Sarge Green
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- truck driver
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- #16
Well damn, I didn't think of that. I went so far as to machine a tool I thought was going to revolutionize the world, and it might if I made some improvements, but it didn't work. I decided I was screwing around too long in the shop, so I just broke the tabs. That's what I did on the Ford too, except in that case I had new parts with new tabs. Oh well. The zip ties will hold fine.Easiest way I found to do it is pull the loop the cable is hooked on out as much as you can with a pair of pliers and clamp a pair of vise grips on it against the backing plate. That should give you enough slack to unhook. Then take a 1/2” box wrench slip over the cable and tap it over the clip it should pop right out.....
I'll file that away though. Your solution is basically the same kind of idea as mine. I made a squeezy thing to clamp all three tabs at the same time. I just didn't make it well enough, and it didn't actually work. To think, I could have just used a damn 1/2" box end wrench.
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