Cable Lubing

[Huggy]

Not sure where this should be posted. I found this on the web. A must see neat trick for lubing your cables no matter what bike.

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[cowpuc]

OUTSTANDING IDEA Hugger!! THANKS!!

I been buying and using these cheapy little clamp on lubers (see link) for years but can say, in a pinch THAT would certainly do the job.. Now I gotta go lube the cables on Crud..

By the way, I have found synthetic bicycle chain lube to be about the best cable lube - seems to last a REALLY long time, even better than white grease. It would be interesting to hear what others of found to work the best for them as a cable lube..

[bongobobny]

What link Puc??

[cowpuc]

What link Puc??

 

Sorry Bongo,, still a little rattled from playing with @bluestar99 and the Vmax this morning I guess , here ya go my friend!

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Universal-Motorcycle-Dual-Cable-Oiler-Luber-Lubricator-Tool-for-KAWASAKI-Models-/121220993921?hash=item1c39559381&vxp=mtr

[Flyinfool]

I guess I just use powdered ferric oxide, acts like a cable full of tiny ball bearings.........

Edited October 2, 2015 by Flyinfool

[cowpuc]

I guess I just use powered ferric oxide, acts like a cable full of tiny ball bearings.........

 

How long does it last Jeff?

[Flyinfool]

I have yet to have to replace it...... About 60K so far.

[djh3]

I have the gizmo and some lube. But I just cant bring myself to break all those cable connections apart and spray them. Argh just seems like such a PIA job. Cant even find the mid point junction of cables.

[cowpuc]

I have the gizmo and some lube. But I just cant bring myself to break all those cable connections apart and spray them. Argh just seems like such a PIA job. Cant even find the mid point junction of cables.

 

I totally agree with ya Dj, after spending a fair share of my life restoring, building, cutting, welding, pulling wires, fixing trannys, CLEANING CARBS and on and on to trying to keep the family fed by selling bikes - the LAST thing I wanna do is lube cables. My best friend has spent his life driving semi cross country, after 40 years of driving - he is sooo sick and tired of driving truck. He comes home now and LOVES to tinker on his scoots. I go down and help him a lot cause I like to spend time in the man cave playing with my buddy. The other day, after I showed him how to clean the jets on his Ruckus he was telling me how much fun he finds in doing so. He couldnt understand my distaste for the tinkering but find my pleasure in the RIDING of them. I then put my feelings into a word picture for him, I explained to him that I really feel the same about tinkering with bikes as he does about truck driving and the :lightbulb:came on!!

In the end though, I gotta say,, if we are gonna ride these puppies and expect them to carry us for thousands of miles without those surprise nuisance little problems - a little maintenance does go a long way. Take those cables for instance, years ago I rode home from Sturgis using a pair of vice grips clamped on to a broken throttle cable as a throttle.. My daughter and I made it home just fine BUT - doing so didnt exactly make the trip funner. Had to pass up on lots of South Dakota two tracks because its pretty hard to navigate such terrain while steering with one hand and controlling the throttle by pulling on a cable end with the other.

One of the things that I really like about the clamp on cable luber is that, with a little finesse, you can lube the cables without actually dismantling a lot of stuff. Just loosen em up, pull em out enough to slide the clamp over an exposed area of the cable, slide it up till it seals against the rubber grommet inside the clamp (the grommet has a variety of cable end sizes built into it), tighten the clamp, stick the little plastic straw that comes with most aerosol spray lubes into the clamp hole and shoot it to it. Squirt till it comes out somewhere up or down the line. For split cables like on our throttle cables, you do have to fuss with the short ends down on the carbs to get enough exposed to get the luber attached but at least you dont have to actually remove the cable box where they all adjoin if you dont want to. In the end, a maintained cable can last a LONG time (Tweeks cables have over 300k on em, all due to keeping em lubed up).

:lightbulb:Wish someone would invent a tire lube,, or a brake pad lube,,, or a headlight bulb lube,, or a.......

[billmac]

you have to lube the cables on these bikes thought they were good for a couple hundred thousand miles before doing anything other than putting gas in them. next you'll be saying you have to change the oil also. :cool10::banana: