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Throttle cable brass piece stuck in cable stop.

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Luke_Healey

Luke_Healey

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The previous owner replaced the throttle cable during the rebuild and it looks like the brass tip that seats into the body of the car as well as the stop piece above the carbs both broke off in there. He ran the new cable, but the tips are just sitting loose since they have nowhere to seat.

Have any of you run into this? I am trying to think of the best way to get the brass pieces out without breaking something. I'm not sure of the drill bit size, but I don't want to change the size of the original pieces the cable seated into.

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what remains is a small ferrule that was attachedto the casing of the cable.

Reach in there with a small side cutter and see if you can grab the top part and lever it out. It is a tight fit on the female post on the firewall and on the carbs heat shield.
 
Otherwise use a drill bit that will bind up on it, slow speed, when it binds pull it out.

Drive/push it out from underneath.

Try a dental pick.
 
Sometimes you can grab something like this by threading a tap into it. You need a tap that is just the right size, though, and sometimes the size is such that no tap fits. But often it does.
 
What it ended up being was remnants of bicycle cable. Those thin chrome caps... I dug them out with my tap kit.

The mount piece at the foot well was broken off of the car, so I used some JB water weld to re-secure it to the vehicle. The new throttle cable is greased and fitted. Having those ends in their appropriate mounts makes everything butter smooth. It's amazing how much differently the car drives with the cable operating smoothly.
 
Excellent, another job well done and in the record book.
 
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