Choke Cables

I decided to try to free up my old choke cables today.


After removing both of them from the choke assembly, man what a pain that is, I realized the left side choke was really the one sticking badly. The internal wire near the carb conneciton is bent a couple times, and seems like it is time to replace.

Now, I do not have a fancy cable luber thingy, and these cables are old and on there way out soon, so I just needed a temporary solution. I decided that some gear oil might do the trick, and it is what I had laying around from my final drive oil replacement.

I proceeded to pour in drop by drop some oil in the cables where they would normall connect to the choke mechanism, and after "worrying" the cable back and forth the oil dripped out the bottom. This actually seem to work pretty easy with out homemade tools, just some paitence.

Now I will be replacing these cable this winter, and Ted Porter's online shop does not list them, but he said he stocks them for $10.00