lakeside
Silver Member
- Joined
- Sep 4, 2008
- Messages
- 227
- Location
- Ontario and Quebec
- Tractor
- B26, G11000 generator and a G1800
My 1993 G1800 was still humming right along until the throttle cable broke just at the throttle lever. I bit the bullet and ordered a new cable assembly but the day before it arrived I had one of my (rare) bright ideas. Instead of replacing the whole cable assembly, why not just order 1/16" Steel Wire Rope (SWR) and make up my own cable?
Since it was too late to cancel my order and I didn't want to muddy my relationship with the dealer by returning the cable I installed the OEM assemble on Saturday just before the blizzard hit with 18" of snow and -6f.
Home Depot has 1/16" SWR in stock and sells it for about .30c a foot. It seems the cable is also used for garage doors so I'd guess every Home Depot or Lowes will stock it. I also ordered what are called aluminium stops, at $2.50 for 20, they were dirt cheap. The stops are swaged onto the cable to hold the cable when it's installed on the two U brackets (one to the throttle lever and the shorter one to the fuel control) I could have hammered the stops but I decided to buy a real swaging tool as it will likely come in handy sometime.
I plan to repair my old cable and keep it as a spare. I already filled the old sleeve with very light lubricating oil and I left it to drip ready to install the new cable.
I'm just kicking myself for not thinking of it earlier.
Since it was too late to cancel my order and I didn't want to muddy my relationship with the dealer by returning the cable I installed the OEM assemble on Saturday just before the blizzard hit with 18" of snow and -6f.
Home Depot has 1/16" SWR in stock and sells it for about .30c a foot. It seems the cable is also used for garage doors so I'd guess every Home Depot or Lowes will stock it. I also ordered what are called aluminium stops, at $2.50 for 20, they were dirt cheap. The stops are swaged onto the cable to hold the cable when it's installed on the two U brackets (one to the throttle lever and the shorter one to the fuel control) I could have hammered the stops but I decided to buy a real swaging tool as it will likely come in handy sometime.
I plan to repair my old cable and keep it as a spare. I already filled the old sleeve with very light lubricating oil and I left it to drip ready to install the new cable.
I'm just kicking myself for not thinking of it earlier.