| Author |
Message |
    
jim stefanowicz
Junior Member
Username: Maxindetroit1
Post Number: 12
Registered: 03-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2006 - 12:22 am: | 
|
Well my son helped me today, wish he would have went to school instead. Took my throttle cable off, was going to lube it, went in the house for a cup of coffee, came out and my son decided he was going to help me by pulling the cable out of the sheath.........DUH! $33.00 mistake. The cable does not come out of the sheath..........he had the end that goes to the throttle lever clamped in the vise and was pulling on the sheath........well, he did manage to pull enough through so I could not get ahold of the end to pull it back, so it trash. Had to order one thru RI, dont help with me rideing tommorrow. Guess i have to go apoligize to the 12 year old now, was a little hard on him. |
Jerry R. Nuss, Max Dealer in Illinois
Senior Member
Username: Jerrynuss
Post Number: 204
Registered: 02-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2006 - 10:30 am: |
|
This story reminded me of something. I used to break cables on my motorcycle and I found a motorcycle shop that could make new ones and repair old ones. I don't know if anyone still does this. Don't be too tough on your boy for trying to help. I don't remember this but when I was three years old my Dad bought a new lawn mower. It was his first new mower so he would wash it and wax it after every use. Nothing fancy just a push mower. Well my Mom had been painting the large propane cylinder with some aluminum paint and had the brush soaking in gas. So I guess I was going to help my Dad out and I painted his new mower. He said I was so proud of it that he told me I did a good job and he left it that way. I remember that when the 5 year old neighbor comes over whenever I am working on an ATV or car. 99% of the time his contribution is distraction but that 1% when I can't reach something he is good to have around. Of course every repair or adjustment always needs to be checked out with a test ride. |
Jerry R. Nuss, Max Dealer in Illinois
Senior Member
Username: Jerrynuss
Post Number: 205
Registered: 02-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2006 - 10:44 am: |
|
I made some calls and the shop is no longer in business but I talked with a past employee. He said they used universal parts from Flanders and could just make a new cable as needed. he also said for lubing they would poke a hole in a zip lock bag and run the cable end up into the hole and wrap a rubber band around the bag and cable housing. Then they would fill the zip lock bag with oil and let it gravity feed through the cable housing over night. |
david berger
Senior Member
Username: Davidrrrd
Post Number: 246
Registered: 01-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2006 - 11:21 am: |
|
great lube trick, on the other note i make my cables all the time!
your cable might be saved, it is a twisted steal cable, and by cuting cairfuly any frayed parts off the end and also if posable the same lenth off the sheeth you could twist your cable back threw the sheth!
maybe increase your odds of sucsess if you can bind the threds of steal with something like glue or melted plastic, once hardend your cable should slip nicely back threw, now if you have given up on your old cable go out quickly and find the specalty bicicle shop neerest to you, get the over 100" tandem derailer cable and enopf sheeth sold in feet ! they cut it off rolls!
you can buy little ends from them or make them yourself from brass or something, i used plain old solderless conecters cut in halfe to grip the ends on my cables and they held just fine, the derailer cable is far and away supirior to the brake cable type cables used for throtles bty the factorys, it has a plastic liner wich dose not rust out on you! and the action is as smooth as hell! can be filled with antyfreez if you want to expirement,
what are you waiting for get the car keys and go get some cable suplyes, you have some rideing to do tomorrow!
othetr tools that helped were dremmal tools, ect ect.. |
Eddie Beddingfield (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2006 - 12:13 pm: |
|
Kids,It dont matter how much stuff they do like that,you gotta love'em.You cant fault him for trying,with your coaching he could be a great mechanic one day! |
jim stefanowicz
Junior Member
Username: Maxindetroit1
Post Number: 13
Registered: 03-2005
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 01:23 am: |
|
Thanks everyone for your posts you all helped alot, David thanks for the e-mail, you saved my ride. My son is still alive and I let him help fix the problem then we went riding. He is 8 I posted above that he was 12, that is his sister. Thanks for the storys that reminded me of my childhood, I messed plenty of things up for my Dad too. Perhaps this is a small payback? Still love him thou. Thanks again. |
|
Shop Talk: Tech Tips and Q&A section