Hello Everyone

I got caught in a thunderstorm yesterday and after I got passed the storm my throttle way getting stuck....It was like having cruise control. I rode the bike into work today and it seems fine. Should I lube up the throttle with something? and if so how and what should I use.

Thanks
Snuffy

Ride Safe!!!

Yes. 3 in 1 oil, sewing oil, anything light and can flow down the cable. Grease the moving parts with a minimum dab only, like the twist tube and the cable end fittings in the throttle tube.

When I put my PCV on my bike I mounted it where the instructions told me to mount it up on the air intake. The PC wires run down the side of the bike and plug in near the throttle body. The little half moon shaped piece that guides the throttle cable was hanging on my PCV wires. Just rerouted wires for my power commander and problem solved. I didn't have that problem initially but a couple of days of riding must have worked the wires down in front of that guide.Was hanging at 3/4 throttle.

* Last updated by: jbice on 4/29/2010 @ 6:05 AM *

Hub wrote:

Yes. 3 in 1 oil, sewing oil, anything light and can flow down the cable.

1. For the cable, would WD-40 be as good as sewing oil?

...and...

Grease the moving parts with a minimum dab only, like the twist tube and the cable end fittings in the throttle tube.

3. There is a throttle open cable and a throttle return, if I recall. They both should be lubed, correct?

Thanks Guys I will take a look this weekend and see If I can figure out where to put the oil.

Listen to JB. This is the first thing you do is take it apart and look for frayed cable ends slash JB junk find.

Then get 2 sandwich bags, 2 rubber bands, and lots of paper towels. There is going to be a tray in the throttle housing and it can be very tricky to reassemble, so blue has a handle on the guide thru. On my end, it does not matter what you use, use something down the cable.

1. Cut the corner of the sandwich bag.
2. Have that hole big enough just to pop over the cable end and over the outer cable housing.
3. Take the rubber band and tighten down as close to the end of the cable, so a limited amount of oil does not act as a catch tank.
4. Because, you will not need much as it runs down to the paper towel at the throttle body bell crank and those cable ends.
5. Lots of paper towels if you over oil everything that just needed a squirt down one side of the cable.

See, no matter what you use, the excess is going to drain out the other end and whatever is cling'd to the strands are soaked in by the flood down the inner cable.

^^^^^^^^^And how about the use of WD-40 as a cable lube?? Good or must we insist on sewing oil.

Wd40 works decent but I prefer the 3in1 oil (that Hub recommended). It doesn't have the additives WD does and is just a hair thicker. I also use just a dab of white lithium grease on the plastic concentric rollers in the housing.

* Last updated by: heathun on 5/2/2010 @ 10:53 AM *

Thanks, Heathun.

I had a similar thing happen as jb's situation - locked throttle at a large throttle-opening in fairly close proximity to a bunch of cars is no fun - had to hit the kill-switch real quick...I zip-tied stuff out-of-the-way of potential lockage...

You don't happen to have a Throttlemeister installed, do you, Snuffy? 'Cause mine causes drag even when fully-closed, but I may not have installed it correctly...

* Last updated by: black14 on 5/4/2010 @ 6:48 AM *

The cables are a short looped so the arch is finite. Page 130 explains cable sequence. Basically, if you don't know which cable is which, carefully and lightly, hold either cable in the crank bell side. Then, twist the throttle to see which cable you need first. Next, take all the slack out of the return cable first. Run the pull cable slack to your desired apply. 2 ~ 3 mm or 1/8" slack at the pull cable. Fork lock swing and all that has more detail in the manual.