SX throttle cable a bit sticky
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Ahh - I think I see the problem now:
As you can see, only one bit of the wire was holding the nipple on! Plus all the fraying was stopping the cable getting back in the 'ole.
After a bit or re-plaiting the cable - luckily it all went back together perfectly - and soldered the nipple back on, almost all was well:
however the cable didn't like the silicone oil I had sprayed down the middle and was sticking really badly, so badly in fact that I though it was frayed in the middle too. So I took it all apart, it was fine, so I put Moly grease all over the inner and put it back together. This time it worked perfectly. It mut be that the silicone oil was too thin.
THe cause of the original end snapping off after a mere 26,000 miles seems to be sloppy engineering - no wonder TVR's got a bit of a bad rep for being unreliable. Firstly the end of the accellerator lever with the cable in wasn't very well aligned with the cable end in the bulkhead, causing it to pull to one side, and secondly the lever was really sharp at the back end - cutting into the cable. So I bent the lever slightly and deburred the hole that it engages in, should last much longer this time. If only they spent 10 minutes in the factory on a little quality.
As you can see, only one bit of the wire was holding the nipple on! Plus all the fraying was stopping the cable getting back in the 'ole.
After a bit or re-plaiting the cable - luckily it all went back together perfectly - and soldered the nipple back on, almost all was well:
however the cable didn't like the silicone oil I had sprayed down the middle and was sticking really badly, so badly in fact that I though it was frayed in the middle too. So I took it all apart, it was fine, so I put Moly grease all over the inner and put it back together. This time it worked perfectly. It mut be that the silicone oil was too thin.
THe cause of the original end snapping off after a mere 26,000 miles seems to be sloppy engineering - no wonder TVR's got a bit of a bad rep for being unreliable. Firstly the end of the accellerator lever with the cable in wasn't very well aligned with the cable end in the bulkhead, causing it to pull to one side, and secondly the lever was really sharp at the back end - cutting into the cable. So I bent the lever slightly and deburred the hole that it engages in, should last much longer this time. If only they spent 10 minutes in the factory on a little quality.
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