Broken Throttle

I'm fairly new so forgive me on how I describe this, nothing in search gave me an answer. My throttle suddenly lost all resistance on my last ride, I had to get it towed in. When I twist the throttle I can see a little cable being pushed out, but is completely slacked. This cable is in front of the other cable, which is further back. This cable still has plenty of resistance. What do I need to replace and where in my clymer manual do I look?


81 kz650 csr
LS, MO
Thanks!

shitimdumb wrote:

I'm fairly new so forgive me on how I describe this, nothing in search gave me an answer. My throttle suddenly lost all resistance on my last ride, I had to get it towed in. When I twist the throttle I can see a little cable being pushed out, but is completely slacked. This cable is in front of the other cable, which is further back. This cable still has plenty of resistance. What do I need to replace and where in my clymer manual do I look?


81 kz650 csr
LS, MO
Thanks!

Sounds like you broke the cable. Pull on the inner part and see if it comes out of the casing.

The bike is stored at another location, so this were the case... do I need to remove the gas tank to fix this?

Yes you would need to pull the tank off. Order another cable from Z1E or wherever before you go and bring along a couple of 10mm wrenches, that's generally all you need to put on a new cable.

It sounds like you need the pull cable but either way here's links for both

Push

Pull


Good luck!

yeah pull gas tank and pull throttle assembly apart on bars to remove cable. one cable pushes,other pulls.ive cheated and used the other cable many times