Although the throttle was functional, it felt pretty bad. I disassembled it cleaned and greased the mechanism inside the bar and tube. I had never encountered this type of throttle design before. The grip tube has a corkscrew shaped ridge inside it, which meshes with the groove in the cable end-- changing a rotating motion to linear movement. All metal parts, and the old grease had sand or some other gritty substance stuck in it. After a good cleaning and a little grease, it moved much better.
I wanted to replace the switch pod mounting screws, and purchased some 5mm ones. Either the thread pitch was wrong, or the screws are not metric so I had to install the originals with stripped JIS heads.
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| I guess the handlebars have to remain OEM |
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| The cable sheath mounts in this anchor, which drops into a slotted part of the handlebars |
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| The blue stuff is brake grease; its the only thing that I had with me |
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| I noticed that the fender had been stamped 18-8 SS, nice! |
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