Loose throttle cable tube

All stock shroud pass thru tubes were "floaters".....  They were a light "push" fit and could be installed and removed with only a pair of pliers, if required.....  Original tubes were retained by a spring from the carb linkage to the shroud....   Hope this helps...

If fixed the cable would saw through the tube eventually.

I was once upon a time touring an old abandoned coal mining operation in the wilds of New Mexico.  Lots of old heavy duty cast iron machinery laying about with big old gears and wheels and heaven only knows what.  Likely been lying there for 50 years or more.  Anyway, one of the larger immovable pieces had an operating instruction embossed right into the cast iron, near one of the large gear bearings, which read: "USE PLENTY OF GREASE".  These are words to live by when one metal part rubs against another.  I advise it here too.  The white lithium sort would work well.  Might not need "plenty" (a little dab 'ill do ya.) but tend to it often.

Just put a hose clamp on the backside and it should hold. The hole on the backside appears to be to big.

I have the Joe Bence tube, not the roller since my alignment is fine. You can see it between the distributor and linkage pivot.

I like the fact that the tube is locked in place on the shroud. It has a teflon liner. I used his fuel-pump block-off plated as well.         

Thank you all for the input! I learn something every time I log on to our site.

This is, what you also can use to fix the tube. Just put it over the tube on the back side of the airbox...

works fine for me

Best Regards Jan

I just put rubber grommets over the tube where it goes through the fan shroud on the front and back.  You may have to enlarge the shroud holes a bit to fit - maybe not, if they're worn some, but they should fit snugly.

Once the grommets are on there, it doesn't move or rattle and everything stays put.  Looks neat, too.

I also have a big throttle return spring over the cable between the fan shroud and the throttle linkage actuator lever, rather than return springs on the carb actuators.  I like that better.  My throttle cable is not angled hardly at all as it exits the shroud tube to run to the linkage actuator - just barely touches the tube at the top when throttle is closed and barely touches the tube at the bottom when the throttle is wide open.

Slide a washer over the tube, pass the tube through the shroud, on the back side slip a 1" long piece of fuel hose over the steel tube snug that against the back of the shroud and tighten a hose clamp over the fuel hose.....done~

Or that.......Sounds about as easy as anything else on here.  Dr. Clock finds more uses for old fuel hose than anyone else I know!

I found a photo of my setup:

Thanks again, gentlemen.

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