accelerator cable replacement

[gti mad man]

have read the evry good wiki article but is it a hard job ?

[ghost123uk]

I had to do a roadside repair on mine only last weekend (on the way to camping at Bala Lake)

I spliced a short length of spare bowden cable in (I it had coiled up at the peddle end) with a "chockie block connector" (necessity is the mother of invention !)

I then adjusted it so the inner cable was just slightly taught when the peddle was full depressed.

I then discovered I had a bit of extra power

The cable must have stretched and when the peddle was to the floor, it mustn't have been opening the carb's butterfly fully = BONUS

[croc]

Did mine couple weeks ago.
Nearly made the mistake of removing the larger nylon tube which goes over the fuel tank and ends near engine bay at a chassis cross-member!!
Undo at pedal end and carb end and pull whole cable to the rear. The new one should slide through from the rear of the large front tube, over the tank, and appear near the pedal. Small bracket to unbolt at this cross-member.
Got my new one from GSF and this all worked ok.

[Hacksawbob]

Use a pull through string as its a more positive approach, never tried pushing it through, common sense would suggest tis is the best way tio encounter problems.

[darrell]

Mine snapped on a sliproad last week and I'm replacing it today - it snapped by the pedal and I've pulled it through the outer tube that goes over the tank away from the front, undone the engine end but can't pull the cable through.

If I pull from the engine end the 'foot' shaped bracket that bolts onto the chasis halfway underneath wont go back through the hole towards the engine, plus there's another hole on the engine bay for it to go through and it looks too big for that too. If I was to pull from under the van the ends on the engine end dont go through the sleeve on the cable that feeds it out of the engine bay... still with me?

From the speed at which this job is supposed to be performed I guess I'm missing something?

[jamesandtheopenroad]

HI

If it's the small hole i Think you are talking about, there is a small channel above it - as in it isnlt a complete hole. The plastic part of the cable that sits in that hole is held by a circlip. Remove the circlip (keep it!) and expose the cable itself by pulling back the rubber grommit, then pull the cable up through the the little gap.

When I did it, i actually pulled both ends of the cable into the middle ( where it is secured to the chassis).

Hope that helps.

[darrell]

don't worry - my brother just slipped it off and now it should pull through!! I was going to delete this so not to look a complete numpty but there's more than one of us around and this might help someone else