Friday, July 07, 2006

Sticking accelerator cable

So i see a question on the tssc herald bit about sticking cables, and as i have just sorted this on my herald i wanted to let them know what to do, so i signed up for a guest pass thinking i could post a reply, but no, the guest seems to offer no more admission to the site than not having one!

anyway the guy is having problems with a sticking cable after putting twin SU's on, his problem is that the triumph cables you buy now are a bag of shite, what he needs to do is get a bike brake cable with an inner sleeve that goes inside the metal outer sleeve, its quite easy to see if the cable has one as its usually an opaque white tube within the spiral metal outer sleeve, the triumph ones you get now dont seem to have the inner sleeve ( at least not the ones i have seen)the one i took off had short lengths ofthe inner tube at either end, but not all the way along, most odd! not having the inner tube with the metal cable sleeve means the cable snags against the metal spiral of the cable sleeve, making a totally horrible driving experience!

I got the metal bit off that is clamped to the triumph cable, its the bit that goes to the bulkhead to stop the cable sleeve being pulled through when you press the accelerator, it has a rubber seal and a crappy grippy lock thing that you push on to it from within the floorwell, I then put it on my bike cable by carefully making the inside of it round again by tapping an old drill bit through it, I then re-clamped it with the cutty bit of my pliars in the correct position along the cable, and hey presto lovely smooth accelerator cable!

1 comment:

vitessesteve said...

I have posted your answer for you.