Cables arrived Wednesday night. I put them in today. Not too hard but not too easy, either. The machine screws and nylon nuts that hold the throttle and choke lever assemblies on are kinda tricky. They are the same size, but for some reason, they used short screws on the throttle assembly, and long screws with 1/2" spacers on the choke assembly.
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I don't know why. A 1/4" drive 3/8" socket on a 4" extension was used to hold the nylon nuts from underneath while a flat blade screwdriver was used to take the screws out. Not too bad.
I had to pry the old cables out of the lever assemblies as they were in a slotted bracket that was crimped down. Again, to too bad.
I taped the new cable ends (the carb ends) onto the disconnected old cable ends, overlapping the bent wires and using a good amount of electrical tape.
Started pulling the first cable through from the carb end, and it went really well for a couple feet, then hit something and stopped. Investigation reveals a large, thick tie-wrap around all the hoses and cables that goes into the tunnel. It was just before that protective wrap that goes around everything. I snipped off the tie wrap and was able to pull it another 18" and came to another stop.
I marked the old cable in the rear tub area just past the tunnel with a silver sharpie marker and pulled the cable back out to the front until I could see my silver mark. I wanted to see how far into the rear of the tunnel the blockage was. It was only 2" from the rear of the tunnel. I reached in the tunnel from the rear, but could feel nothing.
So I pulled it back in until it stopped again. Then, on a hunch, I pulled in the 2nd new cable. It, too, stopped at the same point. However, with a little firm pulling, it came through the rear of the tunnel with another tie-wrap that was wrapped around just the choke and throttle cables. I snipped it off and all was well.
Pulled in both cables, attached them to the carb, and went to mount the levers under the dash.
I put a piece of tape jammed into the socket to hold the nut up towards the top of the socket, and was able to easily start the nuts on all four screws. However, I had to switch to a deep-well socket to tighten up the nuts on the long screws. I skipped the a 1/2" spacers on the long screws, as I saw no need for them.
Finally, I secured the cables with the clamp-down bracket at the carb, making sure the levers were all the way forward (off) and the throttle was all the way closed and the choke all the way open.
Put a couple tie-wraps back on at the carb end as well.
Then I tested them and it fired up OK.
I will have to get some heat shielding wrap for the throttle and choke cables, as I cannot get the old heat shielding off the old cables and re-use it. The cables pass pretty close to the left exhaust header, and it is definately needed.
I'll also get a large tie-wrap and reinstall one around the hoses and cables where I took the old one off.
All-in-all, it took me about 2 hours. I wish they wouldn't have tie-wrapped the two cables together inside the tunnel. Other than that, it was a piece of cake. :laughing:
I hope this info is useful for anyone else that might want to do it. Sorry, no pictures. My hands were filthy and I didn't want to touch my phone.
