Postby Hasbeen » 20 May 2014 22:55
Many years ago, in a far distant galaxy A company was silly enough to give me a Mini as a company. What a horrible thing it was. Fortunately they took it off me, & gave me a real car, after they discovered I was getting only 4000 miles out of the front tyres.
But I digress. The fools at the BMC dealership I was obliged to take it to for service, [remember this was every 1000 miles back then], insisted on squirting oil into both ends of the throttle cable every service.
Within a few days, a little dust would have joined that oil, & the throttle would become sticky. Squirting more oil, STP, or any other substance in there merely changed the degree of sticking, never curing it.
There was only one cure. You had to remove the cable from the car, wash it out with petrol, let it dry, them puff a bit of dry graphite powder in there. No amount of remonstration with the service advisors could ever stop this annoying practice.
It was of course a result of using cheap cables. Quality cables have a plastic sheath both inside & out. These slide smoothly, but BMC used a cheap thing with no inner plastic lining, just like the ones we get today, which caused the annoyance.
If you search you should find a cable fabricator, who makes control cables for the Morse controls on boats. There are hundreds of different lengths in these, all requiring custom lengths. They use quality cable.
I found one in Brisbane who had the smaller diameter cable required for an accelerator, who fabricated one for my 7 while I waited. That was 9 years ago, & it is still stickiness free.
Hasbeen
