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clutch cable
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 1:09 am
by cbxtacy
I'm so good. Your typical hard working, good looking, intelligent and MODEST CBX owner. My high mileage, mostly stock with sport kit 82 clutch cable was going. I left the tank and seat on, dis-connected both ends of the cable, taped the bar end of the new one to the engine end of the bad one, and pushed and pulled it through. Piece of cake. Remember this the next time you have to replace a clutch cable. On an 82. With the grab rail. Mine doesn't have a grab rail but it has a luggage rack and trunk which is worse.
No BS
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:45 pm
by Tom Neimeyer
Hey, I saw that trick on PBS, Secrets of Great Magicians. Was that you?
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:58 am
by cbxtacy
That's me. I also make motorcycle tires disappear 4 or 5 times a year. Easily. With regularity.
Re: clutch cable
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 10:09 pm
by Will
cbxtacy wrote:I'm so good. Your typical hard working, good looking, intelligent and MODEST CBX owner. My high mileage, mostly stock with sport kit 82 clutch cable was going. I left the tank and seat on, dis-connected both ends of the cable, taped the bar end of the new one to the engine end of the bad one, and pushed and pulled it through. Piece of cake. Remember this the next time you have to replace a clutch cable. On an 82. With the grab rail. Mine doesn't have a grab rail but it has a luggage rack and trunk which is worse.
How did the clutch cable get involved with the lack of grab rail or did you loop the extra length back there to take up the slack?
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 10:15 pm
by cbxtacy
The grab rail just makes it more fun to remove the seat on an 82 CBX. I'm lazy and didn't want to remove my seat.