Quick and dirty fix for hood release cable guide sleeves

[Huw Powell]

> While fiddling around with getting replacement guide sleeves I derived a
> cheap and dirty work around that may be as good as the replacements. I got
> an aluminum screw post in the specialty section of OSH(Orchard Supply
> Hardware).  It was nominally 1" long and had an OD of ~3/16", about the same
> as the small OD of the broken sleeve.  I drilled through from the threaded
> end of the screw post with a 1/8" bit making a hole through the head of the
> post.  Then I drilled through from the clamp side of the sleeve, the big
> end, with a bit the same size as the screw post OD, tapped the screw post
> through the head of the broken guide sleeve, and voila, a working guide
> sleeve.  
> 
> I used regular tools, hand drill, etc.  Could be done better with a drill
> press, but then I could make them with a small lathe.  

Glad you came up with a temporary (permanent?) fix - though, wouldn't it 
have been easier to just drill a hole through a bolt?

-- 
Huw Powell

http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi

http://www.humanthoughts.org/