Slow day Peter?
----- Original Message -----
From "Peter C." <nosimport at mailbag.com>
To: "Michael Thompson" <miket@rio.edu>; <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: Greasing Throttle Cables...not much help
> At 12:54 PM 4/19/2002, Michael Thompson wrote:
> >Here's an easy one. When you replace the cable from the gas pedal to the
> >carb, do you grease it first?
> >What do most people use.
> >cheers,
> >Mike Thompson
> >59 Triumph TR3A
> >71 Land Rover S2A
> >76 MG Midget
> =========
> Oh boy, Mike, now you've gone and started another thread. Classic "easy
> question, long drawn out over analyzed, let's get the engineers involved"
> topic. As long as it's slow, let's look in detail at what you've asked,
and
> the possible follow up questions and their ramifications.
> 1) Why are you replacing the cable..... grounding problem? Have you
checked
> your grounds? They might be bad.
> 2) What kind of cable are you replacing it with? NOS original part
> identical to the one that has failed after only 26 years? (hmmmm, I'd
think
> twice about that) USS auto part (usual suspect supplied) that is made in
> UK? CUSS outapart (Chinese usually suspect s*^*) that Frank opines are
> somehow inferior? Some generic bicycle brake cable you had made up at the
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