Along those lines, I recently had occasion to cut up a few NEW (made in UK)
throttle (actually accelerator) cables for Sprites, and every one was rusty
inside. I wrote it off to a slow boat passage, but decided to make new ones
from scratch using a nylon inner liner.
Works slick-er.
Peter C
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At 04:29 PM 8/2/2004, Antony wrote:
>For the record, I cured my new throttle cable stickiness by:
>1. Removing the cable and dripping some "3 in one" down it's length.
>2. Removing the accelerator pedal, cleaning all the gunk off, and
>greasing it at the attachment points.
>
>I don't know which one of the above solved the problem, as I did both
>at once. Now all is well, even under the most intense provocation
>(London traffic, high 20's).
>
>A
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