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scubasteve321
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 Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 8:53 am Post subject: Re: accelerator cable guide tube through T1 fan shroud |
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title should be changed to:
From Tube Questions to Tech Expert; A Journey
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airschooled
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| Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 8:58 am Post subject: Re: accelerator cable guide tube through T1 fan shroud |
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| scubasteve321 wrote: |
title should be changed to:
From Tube Questions to Tech Expert; A Journey |
I’d be out of a job in five days flat if half the people on here had the motivation to quit their careers and package up TheSamba into digestible and fun experiences..... 
Oh, and I found the original tube I lost, several months later, in my music room.. 
Robbie
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SGKent 
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| Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 12:55 pm Post subject: Re: accelerator cable guide tube through T1 fan shroud |
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| scubasteve321 wrote: |
title should be changed to:
From Tube Questions to Tech Expert; A Journey |
I’d be out of a job in five days flat if half the people on here had the motivation to quit their careers and package up TheSamba into digestible and fun experiences.....
Oh, and I found the original tuba I lost, several months later, in my music room..
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How do you lose a tuba?
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airschooled
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SGKent
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| Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 3:13 pm Post subject: Re: accelerator cable guide tube through T1 fan shroud |
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you also stole the tuba? Sad. I played clarinet in orchestra in HS. Shared a practice room with a guy named Ernie who played tuba. I can still pick out every tuba note in a piece. We'd practice - a clarinet and a tuba. One goes la da da da tu tu da, the other goes oomp, ..... oompa........ ooomp ooomp...........oompa ooomp. Oboes just buzz a lot with a raspy sound. No wonder you stole a tuba........... Of course, Stephanie who played the Oboe in that orchestra was a lot of fun to be around.
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ccpalmer
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| Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 5:28 pm Post subject: Re: accelerator cable guide tube through T1 fan shroud |
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| scubasteve321 wrote: |
title should be changed to:
From Tube Questions to Tech Expert; A Journey |
Yea it's funny, when I saw the first post I was like wow, Robbie was here in 2012? He must have been a newbie!
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:08 am Post subject: Re: accelerator cable guide tube through T1 fan shroud |
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I used a piece of metal brake line. Bend as desired, cut to length wanted, remove coupler hardware, use piece of fuel line and hose clamp to lock in place.Cheap,easy,fits like stock tube!
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airschooled
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| Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2021 9:03 pm Post subject: Re: accelerator cable guide tube through T1 fan shroud |
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Looking in the Pacific Parts catalog, page 98, I see a few lengths of the bowden tube mentioned. Perhaps we could split this into a new thread?
131 721 551 - 610mm // 66-67 Type 1
113 721 551 - 598mm // 56+ Type 1/Ghia
211 721 551J - 595mm // 72-79 Type 2
211 721 551K - 570mm // 73-79 Type 2
311 721 551A - 600mm // 65+ Type 3
181 721 551A - 650mm // Thing
I don't know why a few of the listings conflict; it could be an American market or FI/carb cable, since the accelerator tube comes down the center of the bus and goes to the left for carbs or right for FI.
You do not get acceptable throttle cable routing on FI engines without this. Some T1 carb engines can skate by without it, but the cable chafes on the metal guide tubes at both ends.
Robbie
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SGKent
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| Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2021 9:46 pm Post subject: Re: accelerator cable guide tube through T1 fan shroud |
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| airschooled wrote: |
Looking in the Pacific Parts catalog, page 98, I see a few lengths of the bowden tube mentioned. Perhaps we could split this into a new thread?
131 721 551 - 610mm // 66-67 Type 1
113 721 551 - 598mm // 56+ Type 1/Ghia
211 721 551J - 595mm // 72-79 Type 2
211 721 551K - 570mm // 73-79 Type 2
311 721 551A - 600mm // 65+ Type 3
181 721 551A - 650mm // Thing
I don't know why a few of the listings conflict; it could be an American market or FI/carb cable, since the accelerator tube comes down the center of the bus and goes to the left for carbs or right for FI.
You do not get acceptable throttle cable routing on FI engines without this. Some T1 carb engines can skate by without it, but the cable chafes on the metal guide tubes at both ends.
Robbie |
did you ever return the tuba?
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