Broke my throttle cable this last weekend. It broke at the threads where it goes into my in-line throttle-stop(SLE). The cable has small 10-32 threaded ends. It would be nice if a person could come up with a way to reinforce the threaded part of the cable end to help keep this from happening. Anyone have any ideas?
Posts: 1224 | Location: USA | Registered: February 23, 2000
Originally posted by SuperProRacer: Broke my throttle cable this last weekend. It broke at the threads where it goes into my in-line throttle-stop(SLE). The cable has small 10-32 threaded ends. It would be nice if a person could come up with a way to reinforce the threaded part of the cable end to help keep this from happening. Anyone have any ideas?
Originally posted by Cashflow: Simple solution, buy a spare cable. Put it in the trailer, you’ll never need it.
Not with a dragster! Especially if you have an inline stop on it. They bounce around in the burnout and eventually fatigue and break. It's not a question of if, its just when... I have not seen the larger diameter cables break though.
I had a 1/4” cable on my 02 car and never had an issue, still on there to this day I think...my 03 car that I still own is on it’s 3rd cable, I installed a bullet Last time it got replaced about a yeat and half ago. Both cars had single cylinder SLE set ups.
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Posts: 1057 | Location: Texas | Registered: September 12, 2005
What Dave said^^ If you don't have a positive stop. Those size 13's can put a lot of unnecessary strain on that cable stretching it a bit at a time until it breaks. If you don't carry a spare cable, carry a die that will allow you to re-thread a bit of the broken end.
Bruce Lee
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Yup, car has an adjustable stop under the pedal. I attempted to make my own "bullet" last night. After a couple of attempts(and a lot of sweat) I gave up and ordered the Biondo piece. Don't think it will be as strong as a larger(1/4") cable, but hopefully it will make what I have last a long time.
Posts: 1224 | Location: USA | Registered: February 23, 2000
