[Healeys] More choke cable info --

[Alan Seigrist]

Earl -

The trick here is to undo the spring collar and take out the friction
half moon and replace it with a little steel ball and put the spring
collar back on - voilla!  Twist and lock!

Alan

On 5/7/09, Earl Kagna <kags at shaw.ca> wrote:
> We're working on a BJ8.  Has anyone tried to resuscitate the original
> primary cable assembly - in order to retain the twist-lock feature?  The
> replacement cable assemblies are a pull out friction deal that everyone says
> does not work very well - we do have one in hand if necessary.
>
> On our car, the inner cable end has been frayed and repaired (as usual) and
> is now too short - leaving us with not enough cable to fully choke the
> carbs.  I'm thinking that a fix might be to somehow 'sweat' the cable out of
> the knob assembly, and simply solder a replacement length of bicycle cable
> in, without destroying the plastic knob with heat.  We have absolutely no
> extra length to the cable housing, so shortening that will not work to give
> us our extra travel.  Carbs are off the car right now for rebuild, so now is
> the time.
>
> Anyone had any experience with this?  Any and all input appreciated.
>
> Earl Kagna
> Victoria, B.C.
> BT7 tri-carb
> BJ8
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Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
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