GS450 brake cable

[jcains]

Hey everyone,
I am new to this forum and need some help. I bought an 83 GS450T that has a front drum brake. The brake cable needs replaced, but the local shop says they have nothing in their books for a front drum brake, only disc brake. Anyone know anything to help.

[bwringer]

It looks like this cable (Suzuki part # 58100-44700) is NLA, and there's no aftermarket listing I can find.

Where do you live? If there's a decent motorcycle salvage yard somewhere around, they should be able to find you a good used cable -- they'll need the old one to visually match it to what they have available.

You could also have a cable made, assuming there's enough left of the old one to serve as a model for the new one -- Motion Pro offers this service: http://www.motionpro.com/motorcycle/custom/

Flanders sells the parts and fittings needed:

http://www.flanderscables.com/FlanCableSearch.html

[pete]

Welcome to the forums!

A front drum brake on an '83 model sounds rather odd... perhaps someone fitted an earlier front end or one from a different bike altogether?

My '82 450 has a disc front end and I don't recall seeing any other 450's with anything other than a disc front end...

Either way, hopefully Bwringer's links get you out of trouble.

[bwringer]

I thought an '83 with drum brakes sounded odd too, but if you look at the fiche, there it is.

[pete]

Oh wow, how'd I miss that?

I thought I'd been through all the 450 fiche's from around that era for one reason or another, definitely missed that though!

[BassCliff]

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[jcains]

Thanks for your input guys. You seems like a very knowlegable group.
I have posted some pics in my album if interested.

[pete]

Ok, went and took a peek... that is a sweet lookin' 450 you have there

Love the paint work, it's very tidy.