Glen wrote:
>
> Even after a complete rebuild of the braking system on my bugeye, the
> emergency brake does not engage until the brake handle is nearly all the
> way up. I've adjusted the nut on the long threaded housing end until the
> nut only has enough threads to hold. That is, it has all the slack
> taken up. It seems to me that the cable is too long by as much as 1".
I won't ask where the cable came from but I went thru 2 in 2 years. Must
be Asian metal or something. I have found a couple of NOS cables from
Carlisle and have had no problems.
If you are buying them from 1 of the 2 big suppliers, put a cable slack
taker upper on it. This is all you can do.
--
Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ
Too many Sprites (again)
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
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