<div dir="ltr">For anyone else that is preparing to do this repair. I would suggest you head to your local scrap yard. Look in their pile of bicycles. The cheap Chinese Wally World bikes have a sweep 90* made out of aluminum on the front and rear brakes of the bike. Get both of them. When you replace your cable, put these on both ends to keep the transition smooth, and the cable no longer will rub on the bonnet. <br>Just another hint, in the memory of "we tight" Clarici.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 4:06 PM Jeff Foster via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Went to pull my '73 Midget out of the garage 1/2 hour before a guy was coming to look at it for sale this morning. <div><br></div><div>One touch of the throttle and the pedal dropped to the floor! Cable broke at the carb. I'd been careful to not talk much of a pending sale around the car, but somehow it just KNEW, and it wasn't going to make the separation easy on me!<div><br><div>THIS is why I was reluctant every time a prospective buyer asked "will I be able to jump in and drive it _XXX_ miles back home?"</div><div><br></div><div>I remembered a conversation on here from years back - probably from Frank - about using a bicycle shift/brake cable.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Quick trip across town and back, a cheap $4 to the local bike shop, and maybe 3 minutes work and it's "go time" again!</div><div><br></div><div>This is the second time I've let this car go. The new-to-Spridgets buyer is from northern Illinois, 3 hours away. I doubt I'll ever see the car again, let alone have the opportunity to buy it a 3rd time. ;)</div><div><br></div><div>Great bunch of guys and gals here on the Spridget list. I haven't been "active" on here for several years but will miss the camaraderie, and the comedy.</div><div><br></div><div>I have passed info about the list, and the Spridgets Facebook group, to the new owners so you may have a new member soon. They seemed like a decent couple, prepared to take good care of my car - so I even included the freshly powder coated, vintage, Autopower roll bar that I hadn't yet installed or mentioned in the ad.</div><div><br></div><div>Farewell my friends. Safety fast!</div><div><br></div></div>
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