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Greetings, I posted a few months back my frustration with the OMC cable brackets, pre-1979 cables, as I found it extremely difficult to get a set of 4 new Teleflex cables to fit the metal brackets for a dual 1950’s outboard set-up. I have recently discovered there appears to be two different size cable metal brackets. The recent set of metal cable brackets I just installed on a 1957 Evinrude have a wider gap and the Teleflex cables went on easy, where as my earlier experience with the brackets that had a smaller gap I found myself having to force the cables to fit and bending out the brackets. My question is are there different size brackets for a reason? Earlier versions? The wider gap is the answer for my experience as by forcing the cables I slightly damaged the plastic housing on brand new cables. Thanks in advance.
Well, you are correct. There were a few different size/shapes of these little clamps, it is not as simple as “one part fits all”. In fact, I “think” the part numbers were different for the port and starboard clamps. We all just “jammed them in” any old way. I’m pretty sure these different designs were to make it easy to put the control cable into the clamp while ensuring it would be a snug fit with little or no slop between the clamp and cable trunnion.