Re: Stretching throttle cable?

[Iain Mannix <mannix@privateI.com>]

At 12:59 PM -0800 12/25/1997, MMASON@ucrph1.ucr.edu wrote:
>The strangest thing is happening in my 82.  The throttle cable seems to
>be stretching.  I have adjusted it twice in 2 weeks (3000 miles) now...
>each time I took about an inch of play out of the cable.  (Via the double
>nut arrangement on the top of the motor.)  Additionally the throttle
>sticks like crazy...  so I will probably
>have to replace it anyway...

Sounds to me like the cable is breaking strand by strand - which would
explain the "stretching" and sticking all at the same time.  Bicycle brake
and shifter cables are similar, and they get sticky and longer as they
break.  I'd replace it ASAP, can't think of another reason it'd be doing
this.....



I.Mannix


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