Throttle Cable

[Gordonrgs]

Had a throttle cable snap on my 04 16,000 miler the other day (9.45pm, middle of deepest darkest Wales), which was a bit of a shock as I've never had a problem with any of the 3 gen 1's I've owned up to now.

I definately sit on the mechanically inept side of the do-you-own maintenance fence, but sourced a new cable, took the tank off and was confronted by a mass of cables, pipes etc and when consulting the Haynes manual, they say to replace the cables I have to 'displace' the carbs?

Is this a hard job, and do the carbs need any special setting-up once they been 'displaced' and new cables fitted? I'm thinking of letting a 'professional' do it for me, but wondered if anybody here had any views?

[mcyoungy]

Which cable is it? One of them, I think, can be replaced with the carbs in situ. The other needs the carbs half way out.


Check here:


http://www.cartestsoftware.com/fz1/carbremoval.html


particularly read the bit at the end from MikeGTX (Falcon 269 on here)

[steeeve66]

spookily enough i just replaced my cables this week - pretty sure you'll need to pull the carbs out to change both. It's a bit of a fag, not 'difficult' as such but an effort none the less. It took me around 6hrs in total (incl time spent making tea). If you're replacing one you may as well change both.

Note: to get the carbs out you need to slide the air filter back - and to do that you need to take the battery out, something Haynes failed to mention...

Also take care to route the cables correctly... it's a special kind of dumb numpty who whips the old cables out without noting their position first.. ahem... :rolleyes

[red98]

sounds as if the 1000 is very simular to the 600...ive removed the carbs on my 600 several times lately  :rolleyes  pulling them out with the cables attached and then removing the cables last.putting the carbs back on i started with the cables first...dont think you will be able to replace them with the carbs on the bike  :\
top tip......place some rags on the gen cover so you can rest the carbs on and remove the cables 

[Falcon 269]

Note: to get the carbs out you need to slide the air filter back - and to do that you need to take the battery out, something Haynes failed to mention...

And to slide the air filter back far enough, take the EXUP cables out of the retaining clip and pull them completely clear of the frame and airbox on the right side of the bike.

Also, there's a rubber stopper zip-tied to the frame cross rail just behind the front of the airbox.  Make sure the lock box on the zip tie doesn't get in the way.

You should be able to get at least 1/4" clear between carbs and airbox rubbers.  WD40 on the rubber stubs helps things slide easier, too.