Sunday, December 1, 2013

Shortening a clutch cable

We needed to shorten the Virago clutch cable because the adjuster couldn't take out enough.  We marked our cable and accounted for the length that would go through the cable end once driller out.  We took out .6 inches in total.
Deuce cut the cable using the cutoff tool, our thinking was that the cable would fray less this way than if we used dikes.

This is what remains and we cut off the remaining cable.

Measured the diameter of the cable and drilled a hole the same size.


Put a piece of sheet metal on the hot plate and heated everything up.  Once the cable and end we hot enough, solder flowed through everything and made it one piece.

Chris finished it off by filing the cable end smooth.  We reinstalled it and it worked perfectly.

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