Alternate Fix
I had the same part break on my boat. It snapped where the long piece that holds the cable sleeve is bolted. Hunter told me about being able to get the replacement part as mentioned on another post, but I didn't want to tackle dealing with all the wires running through that piece to the guages. I went to a machine shop and had a special L bracket made. I attached one part of the L to the flat plastic area and used the other leg as a new mounting point for the cable bracket. It has worked so far, but I'd like to make a metal plate to add support to that plastic area. One nice thing about this fix is the last step was to push a carriage bolt straight up through the L (square hole) and the plastic land area and put a nut on the bolt. This probably doesn't make senxe unless you are looking at the area, but if you have been in there, you know that working with a wrench down in the pedestal is not a fun experience. The location I used put the nut in an open area with no need to put a wrench on the bolt underneath to tighten (carrige bolt). If this is impossible to understand, but sounds like something you might want to try, Email me and we can go through it some more. Good Luck, Ray drsquires@aol.com
