Anyone got some stock used, old, dirty, stinky but functional cables around? I've got a couple of project FL350's and both have frozen cables on 'em. I only have frozen cables in my parts stash. Don't feel like shelling out $150 for two new pairs of cables, but want to see if I can get these Oddy's started.

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Thanks,

Dan A.

soak the ones you have - they will free up with a little work.

So just coil them up, put them in a bucket, and fill it over the cables with like WD40 or something? Cables are in great shape, just frozen.

What I do is find a rubber hose that fits over the outside of the cable that's about 12" long,
slide it over the end of one cable, put a hose clamp on the hose to the cable connection, fill the hose about 3" with WD-40 or some other solvent type fluid that wont attack rubber and plastic like you don't want to use carb or brake cleaner, then I take my blow gun and use compressed air to force the WD40 through the cable, keep doing this until its blowing clean, also at the other end of the cable work the cable back and forth, once its moving and clean coming out blow out as much of the WD40 as you can (dry the inside of the cable) then lube it with a quality cycle cable lube, same deal blow it through the cable and work the cable good not only in and out try to spin the cable.

This works about 90% of the time.

FYI if you lube your cable with something like Engine oil this is ok too until winter when its cold and the oil gets stiff and then the cable also gets stiff, I learned this the hard way had to remove the cable then flush it out and lube again with cable lube lol

Anytime you remove a cable its good maintenance to at lease blow some of the cable lube through the cable

Ah, cool. Ne er thought to force the wd49 in there with compressed air. Will try thus this weekend. I bet I've got 4 sets of cables that could be saved. THANK YOU! :)

If you have a Mityvac Dan,do the same as whoser says with the setup,but use the vacuum function switch to draw in the fluid.
The advantage with the vaccuum mode,is it is self sealing on all the joins,tubes etc.

If you have no joy being blown...try the suckin' option?

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