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Re: [St] Throttle cables - Once again



Lol!  Love that thing, BTW!
Jeremy 

-Sent from my Windows Smartphone

-----Original Message-----
From: "Joel Ashman" <ashmite@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 10/20/07 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [St] Throttle cables - Once again

Or you could just take that yellow o-ring off the thottle grip!  <grin>

--Joel


On 10/19/07, Jeremy Witt <Jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So when I had my friend Adam perform the 24k miles service on my Sprint
> last May, he cleaned and lubed the throttle cable.  This resulted in a
> staggering difference in throttle movement.
>
> After it finally started refusing to release, I installed a new one and
> had the same staggering level of difference between the post-cleaning old
> cable and a fresh one.  I can't get over how light the throttle action was
> really supposed to be.
>
> >From this, I suggest spending the $38US and the 30 minutes to change out
> any throttle cable that feels like it needs cleaning.  The labor is actually
> less and the cost is only $38US.
>
> Also, a "you were right" to Capt. Serlick on the substitute clutch cable I
> tried last year to save a few $$.  After installing the GenMars, that cable
> just didn't do it, so I went back to stock a few months ago and the clutch
> no longer binds.  I do learn the hard way about a lot of things...
>
> YMMV,
> Happy Weekend,
> JDW
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: st-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of JES_VFR
> Sent: Sat 10/6/2007 5:27 PM
> To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [St] Throttle cables
>
>
>
> At 05:11 PM 10/6/2007, you wrote:
>
> >Sorry John, no disrespect intended. When I was a teenager I spent
> >summers flagging and driving a tanker truck for my uncle while he
> >sprayed all kinds of really nasty stuff on fields all over the Columbia
> >basin. He "drove" C-119s in Korea, and then moved on to "real piloting"
> >spraying crops after the war. That's how he talked about himself, and it
> >just rubbed off on me.
> >
> >Mike
> >'06 ST
> >Seattle
>
> Hey got my start dropping dust for my dad's uncle for two summers. I
> even had time in the Greatgrandfather's stearman biplane.
> So then I moved on to 'real piloting' hunting SAM's and other low
> level attack stuff for the USAF.
>
> It's okay,
>
>
> JohnS
> A Dragon Ascending
> "Forging my body in the Fires of my Will"
>
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