Throttle cable length

[tommy18]

Hi, last night and this morning I've tackled the awfull job of replacing my throttle cable.
I followed the advice of connecting the new to old to guide it through so I never had the two cables side by side to compare lengths, but I was shocked at how short the old one seemed.
I'm now left with a throttle that feels like its set in cement and no good. It seems that the new cable is to long making it not pull freely.
Does anyone have any advice or have a spare they could measure to confirm the length of a 4.5 cable?
I'm going le mans classic soon and was only changing the cable as the old one looked past it's best :-(
Cheers guys!

[tommy18]

Maybe if someone knows what cable is longest out of a 4.2 or 4.5.
The Cable I fitted was labeled 4.5 but it was much longer than the old one, I think it was a 4.2 labeled wrong.

The old one measures 800mm outer cable, 950mm inner cable

Thanks

[ridds]

Having a quisk look on Powers website... (thanks for the pics)

This is a 4.2


This is a 4.5


Would suggest that the 4.2 is considerably longer from those pics.

When I replaced mine it went up through the bulkhead then did a 270° clockwise loop above the brake booster before exiting into the engine bay.

[tommy18]

Yep, I have fitted a 4.2 cable to a 4.5. Excellent!
In there defence it was labeled 4.5.
Thanks for your help

I can't wait to fit it again lol

[Tanguero]

Never mind - just to even thing up they have sent me a 4.5 cable instead of the 4.2 cable I asked for! The new chap in stores seems to be on a bit of a learning curve!

[ridds]

Let me guess RG - CT?

That lad had me over with leaving out one of the items from my rear end rebuild. Thought he might have improved by now.

[Tanguero]

ridds said:

Let me guess RG - CT?

That lad had me over with leaving out one of the items from my rear end rebuild. Thought he might have improved by now.

Nope - TVR Power. Their usual excellent turnaround but ooops!

[ridds]

Seems like they all have new guys learning the ropes then!

[tommy18]

ridds said:

Let me guess RG - CT?

That lad had me over with leaving out one of the items from my rear end rebuild. Thought he might have improved by now.

You guessed it!
When I queried the cable, it was said That one size fits all and it was my fitting at fault. Then I was put onto a nice guy who seemed to have his head screwed on and sorted out the correct cable. Mistakes happen I suppose and they did seem busy.
Apparently it was delivered to my work today so I'm going to start phsycing myself up to spend a couple of hours upside down again.