My old ones have an outer metal sleeve and a greasingpoint halfway.
But I don't like the idea of them being on top of the engine, near the battery, I'd rather have them under my engine.
Also the inner cable of the one that touched my battery won't move anymore, so I have to replace it anyway.

As you can see there was a small piece of rubber coating on the cable near the postitive pole, but probably got shifted when fitting the battery in a hurry.
The picture was taken shortly after the small rampage. The cable was glowing red when it touched the positive pole and the fire was starting where the cable hits the inner wing on the right.
As I said before I replaced the battery-cables and put a circuit-breaker between the negative pole and the chassis.
After the fire I reattached the battery-cable and it started.
Yesterday I thought, the battery will probably be low because of the sudden discharge.
So I put my charger on but it won't charge well and gives an error. There is no cicuit now because of the circuit-breaker, so short-circuit can't be the cause of my charger failing.
I think my battery needs replacing too, will pick up one later this afternoon.
Hopefully I will reach the IMM in one piece

I'll have a look when I get home, im at a wedding this weekend! Pretty sure they are the metal non sleeved ones but I will grab some pictures. Have you thought about moving the battery up front?

Good idea but don't forget my fire started with a battery up front
John

Iain
The "weird block of metal with the bolt sticking out" is at the brake end of the outer sleeve -- in the GTM application I'm familiar with it fits into the brake operating lever and the cable ends in a nipple that is held to the upright in a little claw shaped piece of metal that's bolted on. The operation is somewhat strange in that the inner cable is fixed at the brake end and to the lever so the actual braking action is in effect the outer sleeve sliding along the inner and pushing the brake lever downward -- the back plates are mounted at 90 deg to the Mini application so that the levers are vertical at the front of the upright not horizontal at the bottom. Apologies if this sounds complicated -- I used to have an installation drawing of all this but I think I passed it on to Derek as part of the project material.

Its because of this that I mentioned in my post above that the Morris Minor cables would require modification -- I didn't want Harold to think that he could buy some and they would fit straight on. IMO his best bet is to buy Starmag's set and "insulate" them with rubber tube.

Hope this helps not hinders!

Steve

@starmag: yes I have thought about putting the battery in the front, but as John mentioned, the Battery close to the gastank can have bad consequences too.....
Waiting for your reply.

You can just about see them in these pics, they are p clipped to the rear spaceframe, one either side, the speedo cable takes the same route too.

I'll look into postage costs Harold, and you can have them for the cost of the postage

Hi Starmag,

On the left side I can see a black cable-ish thing that may potentially be a handbrakecable
What do you mean with p-clipped (try to translate it to dutch... )
If they are in working order I would like them.
Tell me what you want for them.
Only the postage-costs will be very acceptable to me!

Cheers
Harold

One of these (or similar)

http://www.westfieldfasteners.co.uk/A4_ ... oC6Jjw_wcB

Aaahaa, "Carrosserieklem" or "kabelklem" as we call them in Holland

Cheers Harold, thats always good to know I can impress my Dutch freinds, is it the same in Flemish?
John

Hahaha, Flemish is like Dutch indeed, just a bit different, like a dialect.

Apologies for thread diversion - do you find your oil cooler works okay in that location? I'm looking into options for my Spyder and have been told it needs a good air flow through the core to do any good but obviously that is hard to achieve in a mid engine car, hence the question.

Hi Sanzo I had an oil cooler in that position in my old GTM but I ducted air in from the side
John

ducted cooler in Cox GTM

Revotec do some nice ducts that attach to the cooler, they also do brake ducts that you could modify to good affect. I am going down this route with my Heerey as I have the moulded duct behind the door.