Accelerator cable question Options

[patssle]

I was out for a drive today and heard a snap....my accelerator became a little mushy - but still easily driveable. Made it home, removed the cable from my carb linkage, pulled a little out in the front, and half the cable had snapped, with a couple twines holding it together. Whew.

So I'm looking at new cables on Pelican, and have read here the Terry cable is a good buy, but it looks different. From the picture, much of the twine is exposed. My current cable has the rubber covering most of it from the firewall to the linkage and a nut to tighten it against the cable mount for the carb linkage - and haven't noticed any twine in the tunnel.

Is it suppose to be just uncovered twine in the tunnel?

[JayDubbya]

I recently replaced my throttle cable. The old one was TERRY and was a nekked metal cable - as you mentioned - from the place where the cable entered the tube at the firewall at the front of the engine compartment and all the way to the accelerator pedal. My old cable was in pitiful shape – quite well rusted and frayed. (Although I am certain it was not original equipment since it was a TERRY, I have no idea how many years it had been inside the beast. So the fact that it was in terrible shape is not a comment on how long a TERRY might last.)

The replacement cable was a GEMO_OEM_branded cable. That GEMO cable had what I called “a white plastic sheathing” from the firewall to the accelerator cable. Other GEMO's that I've seen pictured on the 'net all had that white sheathing. Some sites refer to it as "teflon" but I do not know if it is PTFE or not. The thought of a sheath that might help keep the cable from catching or rubbing on something seems to make sense, but real world performance is often not the same as “what makes sense.”

GEMO's - strangely enough - are generally less expensive. This group has tended to be more TERRY-friendly but I have no idea if that is performance-based or has another explanation. I don't have the history or knowledge or any other bent to recommend one vs the other.

Good luck !