Was bothered by long clutch cable (after putting clip ons on my '72 500k) and the bend seemed to induce binding, heavy clutch lever, much fatigue, now I'm told the 500 fours were notorious for clutch weirdness but even so, decided to try to shorten my cable.
measured cut, tried to drill out the old cable from the barrel, what a pain, ended up ruining it, tried the "solder in a wooden hole" method,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-gY27LTU2c
seemed to work great, felt really solid, but it pulled free way too easy, shopping for barrel ends to try to solder a new one on, not growing on trees apparently. Saw the "copper wire wrap" method, looks interesting but it failed him on the clutch.
Current plan (if I can't scrounge a new barrel quickly) re-try the solder in the wood mold thing since it was silly easy and "almost worked". This time around I'll clean and prep the cable end better. Got the solder (I think, coreless "mechanical"). Flux. Tried to fray the ends but will try harder next time. I think it's hard to heat the cable end while it's in the wood "mold" enough that the solder job is good.
Advice welcomed.
Motion pro is an option but the "I did it myself" pride is in full swing.
measured cut, tried to drill out the old cable from the barrel, what a pain, ended up ruining it, tried the "solder in a wooden hole" method,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-gY27LTU2c
seemed to work great, felt really solid, but it pulled free way too easy, shopping for barrel ends to try to solder a new one on, not growing on trees apparently. Saw the "copper wire wrap" method, looks interesting but it failed him on the clutch.
Current plan (if I can't scrounge a new barrel quickly) re-try the solder in the wood mold thing since it was silly easy and "almost worked". This time around I'll clean and prep the cable end better. Got the solder (I think, coreless "mechanical"). Flux. Tried to fray the ends but will try harder next time. I think it's hard to heat the cable end while it's in the wood "mold" enough that the solder job is good.
Advice welcomed.
Motion pro is an option but the "I did it myself" pride is in full swing.