Topic: Can this be a CB750 cable?

[754]

Found what looks like early cable or 1/2 anyway.


Part that goes into throttle housing is chrome with adjuster, looks like the others. Cable tHough is very thin, and ends with a knurled cover and a splitter for 4 cables. So it is missing the junction cover and 4 cables. The knurled cover is a straight knurl, and this parts looks smaller than the junction & cap on the K0 carbs I got recently.

So whats the skinny, is this an early cable part.. (17910-300-010..not the 030  later part)

[Patrick]

I have a cable just like that that came with my K0 750, 754. It was not in good shape, though, and when I ordered a replacement cable it was thicker and did not fit the connectors on the tops of the carbs. My bike came with two sets of K0 carbs, though, and the connectors on the second set fit the fatter cable.

I know this is a remarkably unhelpful response, since I don't know which cable is the original and which may be a superceded part, but I have both kinds of carbs, both are K0 style and they have two sizes of cables and connectors.

Patrick

[754]

It does help, can you tell me if the top of the splitter that is on the lead cable has straight lines on the knurl?

IMO it looks like bicycle cable or light throttle cable. I am trying to ID it, pretty sure it may be useable to someone..

[Patrick]

Hi 754, a little mor info:

The two carb sets each came with a cable. The sleeves on both cables are cracked with age, so I didn't want to use either and ordered a new one, which turned out to be the thicker type. I put the two old cables side by side this morning. Near as I can tell, they are nearly identical, except for the thickness of the cables, the size of the connectors and the thicker cables are a little longer. The top, that attaches to the throttle sleeve, is the same. The upper half of the fat cable will not screw into the bottom half of the thin cable because they are different diameters and vice versa, but other than that they appear the same.

The only reason I believe both are original K0 cables is because the two carb sets have different connectors on the top of the carbs but otherwise are identical. You can exchange exchange the top set plate from each set of carbs to the other, but you cannot exchange the connector alone. The diameters are different.

I am not a vintage motorcycle expert, so I have no idea if any bike other than the K0750 used the single cable to four individual carb cable arrangement you find on a K0. I also do not know if someone somewhere along the way in the last 40 years exchanged the four top plates from other carbs to one set of my carbs so they could use the different size cable. I just know that both sets appear to be K0 carbs and each uses a different thickness cable.

Again, I hope this helps somehow.

Patrick

[754]

It helps..
 but I got to ask, if you take apart the 4-1 splitter on the skinny cable set, the cap you turn off, is the grippy part straight or diamond shaped knurls?

 Pretty sure i have an early CB cable, I have seen at least 1 other 4-1 cable.. daw one that had 3 cables same length(approx) and 1 shorter 1.... I assume this is for a 2-stroke trippple, and short cable is for oil pump.

In the parts book it shows the cable change at ser # 17,XXX, so I assume thick ones after that.

[Patrick]

That I can answer with authority, 754. The grip has straight lines, not diamond shape. I wish I has a bottom half that fit that cable. The carb tops I have with the small connectors are much nicer than the others.

Patrick

[754]

Bingo, that is what I needed to know..

 Hey, I could make a bottom for you, if someone can provide measurements..

[Patrick]

Now I wish I had saved the buggered lower cable that I took off the carbs. Argh. Who knew......

Patrick

[754]

I think that the actual spitter may not have had slots, which means the cables cannot be pulled out to change or clean.

Its at my shop.. so I cant see it right now. I was thinking of selling it but maybe better to use as a pattern to build some parts.

Think of this, them slick nylon lined cables from Barnett, with a new splitter, whole new cable out of mre modern  materials, an update for KO riders...

[Patrick]

That would be cool. Let me know if you do it.