How can I remove broken bit of inner speedo cable?

[Gryphon Rider]

I have the speedo cable out of the bike, and I can get 7/8 of the snaky inner cable out, but the last bit at the bottom won't come out.  I've tried tapping the cable while letting it hand straight upside-down, and I've tried compressed air.  Anyone had success with this, or am I just going to have to spring for the $40 cable assembly instead of the $12 inner cable?  Yeah, Honda Canada rips us off, and customs nails us if we buy from the States.

[signart]

Magnet?

[Patrick]

You don't think the new cable would push out the piece ?

[Gryphon Rider]

There is no way to access the bottom end of the cable to push it out.  The cable only comes out the top end.

[Gryphon Rider]

Magnet?

The cable jacket has a metal structure.  It would shield a magnetic field.

[Bone]

Freezer or heat if the first doesn't work try the other then hang and tap.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Damn, a $16 part here is a $40 there ? I'm considering giving up drug running and switching to parts running 

[Daniel Meyer]

If it's seized in there then it's damaged the cable housing. Spring for the assembly.

[Gryphon Rider]

Well, my misconceptions about how the bottom end of the cable is constructed has cost me the price of the assembly; if I knew a little more I could have gotten away with replacing only the inner cable.

I had inserted the 7/8 piece of cable and pressed on the end of it, causing the other broken end of it to press against the matching broken end of the 1/8 piece of cable, then turned the slot at the bottom end with a screwdriver.  Because the bottom end didn't come out, I had assumed that the bottom end of the cable had a square cross-section like the top end and inserted into a square hole in the end of an adapter (the other end of which I could put my screwdriver into) that was captive in the bottom end of the cable.  This is not the case.  The "adapter" is actually crimped onto the end of the cable, and If I had pushed harder on the top end of the 7/8 piece, I might have popped the "adapter" out of the bottom end of the cable sleeve.  It turns out the two fingers that form the bottom driven end of the cable had splayed apart slightly, wearing a slight ridge inside the bottom end of the sleeve, preventing the cable from easily falling out the bottom end of the sleeve.

I found this out by hacksawing the sleeve apart near the break, then pulling it apart.  I was expecting to be able to pull on the 1/8 piece broken cable end, pulling it out of the cut sleeve end.  I was surprised when this didn't work.  Pushing hard on the broken end finally allowed the 1/8 piece to pop out the bottom end of the sleeve.

My kids' school fees are due, so I'll be riding around without a working speedo until my next paycheque.



Spayed fingers:


Evidence of grinding:

[Daniel Meyer]

Might check Amazon Canada...maybe a bit cheaper.

I got a replacement cable assembly for $15 here in the US...

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000GZLC9W/ref=pe_385040_30332200_TE_item

(and yep, the pic is wrong on that item, but I got the correct cable)

[Gryphon Rider]

Somehow, I managed to typo "splayed" as "spayed" twice!  I'll have to change the body of the message to make it consistent!