 Once while riding our dualsport bikes
in the mountains with a buddy, 35 miles from any town or our
truck, my buddy's bike rolled to a stop on the side of the trail.
I went back to see why he had stopped and he said his throttle
quit working. We removed the throttle assembly and found the
little ball that is on the end of the cable had broken off.
We had no way to tow his bike so we had to do something.
While looking at the cable and what we had in our fanny packs it
came to me. The small aluminum tip that screws onto a spark
plug looked to have a nice round shape on the upper half of it.
I always carry 4" Vice Grips with a built-in wire cutter so I
cut the tip in half and crimped it to the end of the cable.
It held well because the threads inside the spark plug tip gripped
onto the cable. I trimmed the tip with wire cutters until it
fit in the hole in the throttle pipe. I had to take all the
slack out of the cable adjusters so the inner cable was long
enough for the slide to reach the bottom of the carburetor.
I told my buddy not to pull on the throttle real hard and thought
it might last until we could make it back to the truck, even if we
had to re-do it a couple of times, we could eventually make it
back. We made it back with no further problems.
I saw my buddy a month later and
asked if he had bought a new cable yet and he said he had still
been riding the bike every day around town and it still was
working fine. Eventually my buddy bought a new cable and
when we installed it I took his old cable and grabbed the crimped
spark plug tip and pulled on it as hard as I could and it would
not come off. We could not believe how well it held to the
cable! I hope this tip might help someone someday.
Credits:
Tip submitted by Randy Ressell
4Strokes.com
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