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PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:14 am 
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This is like what the 4th time i about 2 years? :evil: :shock:

I was on my way to work (where i am now) and got about 4km from work and the cable just snapped. Pulled over, adjusted the idle on the carby and coasted the rest of the way to work at about 20km/hr..took me another 15min to get to work (normally i can get to work from home in 30min :lol:)

So yeap..got to work ok, on msn talking and czerial lives about 5min from where i work and he just happened to have a spare that he removed from Elmo 8)

So Chris being the nice fella that he is pops over to my work at 2am in the morning :lol: Thanks Heaps.

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This does what now?
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Fixed!
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Erm...:lol:
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Can i go home now?
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:19 am 
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stop being a hoon and maybe your cable may not snap so often :roll:

or maybe you are just naturally unlucky :P

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Ah damn, should have given us a call.. Im just down the road from you at the moment and have a spare cable somewhere.. bored at work also.. Glad Chris managed to help though.. It's a damn pain when they snap..


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:29 am 
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Thanks alex, did you you end up getting that G16 swift from eBay?? looks like you won it :D

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Haha yep sure did :D $451.. not too bad I reckon.. considering I can part the rest of the car and sell it.


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Ive always used the inner of a bike brake cable, cant say ive ever snapped a cable b4?

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Glad i was able to help mate!

And farken hell they must be the UGLIEST UGLIEST shots of me
i have ever seen in my life!! :lol: :lol: :( :(


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:19 am 
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Mini Mad wrote:
This is like what the 4th time i about 2 years? :evil: :shock:


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That's a pretty sharp angle at the end where the inner cable comes out of the sheath.. Maybe it's rubbing through?

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I was just about to say Josh, it's about time you investimagated why it's doing that in the first place. The angle does look abit sharp. Maybe you need to oil/grease the cable?

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if you get stuck like that again you could always try rigging up a hand throttle with some string and a stick for a handle. I don't know how well it would work on a Mini though because you would have to pull the throttle linkage towards the front of the car which would be hard if you are using string :)

I know someone who did this on a car before and just rigged it up so that pulling the spring would rev the car. they drove it like this until they got home or whatever to fix it.


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You can hook your choke cable up to it and pull the choke... works really really badly though!


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The most common reason for killing throttle cables is not allowing enough slack at full throttle. If you carby hits the stop and and your foot is not on the floor and you keep pushing you are loading up the cable. You should adjust the cable so that when your foot is on the floor you are just a tad under full throttle on the carby.

But Mini Mads problem may be caused by the angle that the cable is being pulled through.


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:57 pm 
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no, mini mad;s problem most definately is his LEAD foot :!:

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I second the Lead foot..
Interesting to see if the cable brakes with the new motor :wink:

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:33 pm 
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:P

It keeps breaking where the nuts squeez the cable, there is a washer in there ..I know before when they broke the cable didn't have any slack at full throttle and was getting tugged..but i fixed that..This time it snapped clean though :? ..like there were no frayed bits or strands..just a clean break..

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