DOn't buy old banger Honda CG125 bikes from E-Bay

[yorkie_chris]

accelerator pump?

Can you not resolder the cable you have?

[Jayneflakes]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

accelerator pump?

Can you not resolder the cable you have?

I have tried, but the cable splitter is worn and has damaged the plastic holder it runs in. Also the two cables just pop out of their slots because the fit is so sloppy now. I did think that a bit of electrical tape could fix it, but that was one bodge too many, even for me. I will try to get a new cable tomorrow and refit the lot. It will cost a bit though, which is not great news just now, but needs must.

I have a gas powered solder iron that works quite well on such things usually, but today was a dead loss. Oh well...

Looks like tomorrow will be a shopping day with the Mountain Bike. I have just serviced the Hope Disks on that, it has better brakes than my CG and even taking the pistons out to remove dirt and corrosion was a simple job, compared to working on the Honda.

Motorbikes are so much harder to work on, you can't just turn them upside down when you drop a bearing down a hole by accident. Still I am learning more every time.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

accelerator pump?

Can you not resolder the cable you have?

Oh, that's what that diaphragm thingy is called! And now I've Wikipedia'd it I know what it does, three years 2 late! It will work without that cable (the one on the cam), but will bog down easily. I don't think it affects your top speed, or apart from that first throttle movement, the acceleration either. I disconnected it to see what happened on my Chinese 125, apparently it had a knock-off CG engine.

[yorkie_chris]

Yeah it's so they can run the engine leaner everywhere and get away with it, because initial throttle pickup is where you need more juice.

[Viney]

The SV runs twin throttle cables. One for pull and pne for push. All apprently to do with German TUV regs. I removed the return cable and makes the throttle much more snappy

[Jayneflakes]

All fixed, the new cable from Honda is twice as thick as the crass pattern part and the nipples are much stronger. Fitting was funny, Carol watched (and shivered like a girl!) and advised me on some of the more technical parts. The accelerator pump cable is correctly adjusted and the marks line up, the new sealed splitter is out of the way and the cable has been rerouted to avoid sharp edges and a tight corner.

A quick test ride and back indoors for bed. Once again, the super brilliant LED head torch Carol got me for Christmas came in rather useful, working on the bike in the dark would be so much harder with out it. Feel some what less angry today, fitting the whole cable set was so much easier than trying to solder a nipple onto a thin cable.

So what can go wrong next, lets start a book on it, the one who guesses right can have ten minutes of cuddles with my cat Jasper, you may need a can of tuna though. Some of you know him already due to his Facebook page...

[yorkie_chris]

You need some worklights and a genny!

[Jayneflakes]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

You need some worklights and a genny!

Our genny is rather noisy, so I left it off tonight given that our garage is close to our neighbours place and we don't want to disturb their kids.

Great bit of kit when I need it though, makes enough power to run a work shop plus halogens and the Hi-Fi. Nothing like the serious blast beat of Cannibal Corpse to fix bikes to or polish alloy!

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

All fixed, the new cable from Honda is twice as thick as the crass pattern part and the nipples are much stronger. Fitting was funny, Carol watched (and shivered like a girl!) and advised me on some of the more technical parts. The accelerator pump cable is correctly adjusted and the marks line up, the new sealed splitter is out of the way and the cable has been rerouted to avoid sharp edges and a tight corner.

A quick test ride and back indoors for bed. Once again, the super brilliant LED head torch Carol got me for Christmas came in rather useful, working on the bike in the dark would be so much harder with out it. Feel some what less angry today, fitting the whole cable set was so much easier than trying to solder a nipple onto a thin cable.

So what can go wrong next, lets start a book on it, the one who guesses right can have ten minutes of cuddles with my cat Jasper, you may need a can of tuna though. Some of you know him already due to his Facebook page...

Back light blows. My bet.

[yorkie_chris]

Puncture