Octane Quick throttle fix?

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I ate it yesterday jumping boat wakes, and managed to snap off my stock throttle lever. There was enough of a stump left that at least I could ride it home....

Anybody got a really nice, quick fix for this? I'm leaving Wednesday evening for the big Polaris get-together in Utica, IL, and wanted it fixed before then, so I don't have a lot of time to get something shipped in.

Any thoughts?

Michael

 

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Bike break levers work.

 

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Bike break levers work.

Well, I did this today, and I wouldn't recommend it! Bought a nice aluminum perch from local "real" bicycle shop. Unfortunately, their cable ends are 7mm, octane is 6mm dia x 10mm length barrel end. So I had to shim that. Coors beer cans make excellent .5mm shims!

I had to cut the big honkin' cable end adjuster off of the stock cable, as it was about 2x the size of the threaded insert to the bike lever perch. Then, that caused the cable to be too long, and the remaining adjusters (the one by the carbs, and the one on the bicycle perch) couldn't take up enough slack. So I wound up bending the crap out of the lever, to try to get it to throw enough to open the carbs fully.

Finally, I gave up on trying to bend the lever, and moved the cable to the second slot on the carb (my stock carb has 2 spots for the cable, almost looks like it was a "push-pull" setup for a motorcycle throttle originally?) That got the slack out, and put the length in a range where the adjusters could work.

Then the lever hit my other fingers on the bar, so I had to cut the lever back to where it only fits 2 fingers.

On the plus side, now my Octane has an idle! I just adjusted the cable to hold 2800rpm out of the water.

I'm actually pretty happy with how it turned out, but it was hours and hours of fiddling. If it wasn't for the fact that I need this ski running on Wednesday, I would have gladly paid for a nice Umi setup...

 

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Well, I did this today, and I wouldn't recommend it! Bought a nice aluminum perch from local "real" bicycle shop. Unfortunately, their cable ends are 7mm, octane is 6mm dia x 10mm length barrel end. So I had to shim that. Coors beer cans make excellent .5mm shims!

I had to cut the big honkin' cable end adjuster off of the stock cable, as it was about 2x the size of the threaded insert to the bike lever perch. Then, that caused the cable to be too long, and the remaining adjusters (the one by the carbs, and the one on the bicycle perch) couldn't take up enough slack. So I wound up bending the crap out of the lever, to try to get it to throw enough to open the carbs fully.

Finally, I gave up on trying to bend the lever, and moved the cable to the second slot on the carb (my stock carb has 2 spots for the cable, almost looks like it was a "push-pull" setup for a motorcycle throttle originally?) That got the slack out, and put the length in a range where the adjusters could work.

Then the lever hit my other fingers on the bar, so I had to cut the lever back to where it only fits 2 fingers.

On the plus side, now my Octane has an idle! I just adjusted the cable to hold 2800rpm out of the water.

I'm actually pretty happy with how it turned out, but it was hours and hours of fiddling. If it wasn't for the fact that I need this ski running on Wednesday, I would have gladly paid for a nice Umi setup...

Pics??

 

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Pics??

Ok, here's 2. First one shows the bike perch after I cut the lever down, and bent the crap out of it. If I was only bending for ergonomics I still would have bent it almost this far.... Also in the pic is the cable end that I had to cut off, in order to use the stock cable in the bicycle perch.

This is the pic of the carb end, with the cable installed in the upper hole. That little allen head bolt that the wire rests against was Randy's idle stop, but I never got around to making it work. It works nicely as a cable fairlead.

I wouldn't have to use the upper hole if I would just cut the cable down and re-solder a new barrel end about 3/4" shorter. But I'm outta time. I probably will do that later, as I'm not fond of the cable rubbing....

I sorta like the lever, but don't really like the cable on carb setup.

Total cost, $10 and an empty Coors beer can, but as I stated earlier, save yourself the aggavation and buy the Umi setup!