Check what the race car people use, there are some interesting twisted
metal tape cables that are very low friction, and pushj pull
Graham
rparigor@suffolk.lib.ny.us wrote:
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> Hi Jim
>
> "So we purchased Bouden cables from ACS, PN 05-15500. To connect to the
> carbs & throttle housing we used conduit adjusters from Lockwood PN BR03K.
> Had to drill them out to fit the ACS cable but the system works very
> nicely. Also lubed the Bouden cable assemblies with graphite lube.
>
>>Eric Trombley had a post on the forum several years ago on how he did this."
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> Question:
> When you reduce friction on the throttle with solid piano wire, will the
> carb springs snap the throttle to full bore? (as per Europa Service
> Bulletin #7)
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> I can see that solid wire can reduce the possability of kink (bulge) near
> throttle, but "when" one solid cable breaks at the throttle termination,
> is the spring going to be able to overcome friction of solid cable and
> open to full bore?
>
> Someone a while back mentioned he used Motorcycle clutch cable, and it
> would allow a quite good push without kinking. My experiance with solid
> wire cables (lawnmowers, snow blowers, go carts and mini bikes and manual
> choke cables for automobiles), is terminations tend to eventually fail
> without warning. On the other hand clutch cables have pretty much proven
> to be very reliable.
>
> Of course a 2 cable per carb push / pull would probably be a winner!
>
> Ron Parigoris
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