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Long time no post, good to be back.
So it has been over a season since I’ve had the bike running. Last year I started it up, dropped the choke and when I twisted the throttle the pull cable broke. And this year I have had too many big building projects to fix it and ride. But today is the day I decided to blow the dust off of my new (year old) throttle cable and install it. Disassembly was easy, the old cable had snapped, rusted about 4 inches from the top. Once the new cable was in I could not get the twisted open throttle to return to closed position. Twisting open was tighter than I remembered also. After a few adjustments on the lower push and pull cables I found I could almost make it work, but never once the housing assembly was screwed back together. Plenty of lube was involved with some head scratching and some mild swearing. It appeared that everything was in place, but something was binding, like I had over torqued the fasteners. I finally noticed that the new cable stay/anchor (or whatever the little lead barrel is called) projected from the plastic rotor it attaches to maybe a 32nd or 16th of an inch or so... hard to tell. So I took it apart again and it was wider than the original. I filed town both sides of the cable stay and reassembled it. It finally worked flawlessly. I would complain, but it was good to wrench on the bike again.
So it has been over a season since I’ve had the bike running. Last year I started it up, dropped the choke and when I twisted the throttle the pull cable broke. And this year I have had too many big building projects to fix it and ride. But today is the day I decided to blow the dust off of my new (year old) throttle cable and install it. Disassembly was easy, the old cable had snapped, rusted about 4 inches from the top. Once the new cable was in I could not get the twisted open throttle to return to closed position. Twisting open was tighter than I remembered also. After a few adjustments on the lower push and pull cables I found I could almost make it work, but never once the housing assembly was screwed back together. Plenty of lube was involved with some head scratching and some mild swearing. It appeared that everything was in place, but something was binding, like I had over torqued the fasteners. I finally noticed that the new cable stay/anchor (or whatever the little lead barrel is called) projected from the plastic rotor it attaches to maybe a 32nd or 16th of an inch or so... hard to tell. So I took it apart again and it was wider than the original. I filed town both sides of the cable stay and reassembled it. It finally worked flawlessly. I would complain, but it was good to wrench on the bike again.
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