[Tigers] Throttle Cable Replacement

[Ron Fraser]

Graham
	A very long time ago I use a bicycle brake cable for the throttle
cable.  The wire wound cable is a bit more flexible and a bit more forgiving
with alignment of the cable.  It does take more work to get the ends
attached and working correctly.

1	I would wait for Sunbeam Specialties to have them in stock and buy 2
- carry the spare in the car.
2	get the alignment of the cable between the carb and throttle pedal
arm as best you can - any bind in the cable will cause it to fatigue and
break again in the future.

I found that I needed to raise the cable bracket on the intake manifold up
about .100" to eliminate the bind.
I'm currently using and Edelbrock design bracket that I made under that
bracket - it seems to be just right.

Gene Padgett first brought that Edlbrock bracket to our attention and if
your interested I'll dig my drawing out.

Ron Fraser

-----Original Message-----
From: Tigers <tigers-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of Graham Harlowe via
Tigers
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 7:57 AM
To: 'Tiger's Den' <tigers at autox.team.net>
Subject: [Tigers] Throttle Cable Replacement

Listers -

Looking to replace a broken throttle cable.  The usual suppliers are out of
stock for "stock" replacements.  Anyone have a substitute that worked
recently?  

A little Googling revealed a TEAE recommendation (circa 1977) to use a
bicycle brake cable (?).  

http://teae.org/tiger-accelerator-cable-fix/

Summit and Jegs sell generic cables.    

Thanks much, 

Graham
B382001466




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