Throttle Cable

The throttle cable is now fitted to the carb. Haven't done the pedal end yet but its fun to stand and pull the cable by hand and open/close the throttle. I bought the standard cable from Dax which came with a single spring and a bracket which goes on one of the rear carb fixings. There was a tiny hole drilled in the bracket to take one end of the spring but it was too close to the body of the carb and the spring fouled on some of the external throttle mechanism so I drilled a new 2.5mm hole a bit further out so the spring didn't catch.

Video of clutch working:

There isn't quite enough travel on the release arm. The clutch disengages on about 90% pedal travel and when the prop shaft is turned by hand you can feel it dragging slightly with the pedal all the way to the floor. Sadly this is because my clutch master and slave cylinders are mis-matched. I've got 7/8 slave and 3/4 master so I've got less movement at the slave (onto the clutch arm) per pedal distance moved. Most people have it the other way round (d'oh!). Due to our clutch release arm being chopped by 1.5 the stroke required is slightly less (but more effort) so I reckon that 7/8 master and 7/8 slave should be sufficient, with the clutch biting about halfway down the pedal. Not ideal but I'll give it a go. The one good thing about getting this wrong is that we now understand fully how it all works, rather than just bolting the parts together and moving on to the next job. It does mean that the excellent job we did of filling the system with fluid and bleeding it now has to be repeated.