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Has anyone that's purchased our host's enrichener/"choke" handlebar lever conversion experienced a need to alter the cable end in order to fit it? In the kit I've putchased, the soldered end won't fit in the plunger hole which is supposed to accomodate and capture it. Is this normal? Is it supposed to require filing? I love Hitchcocks and their products, but I wish some things came with instructions!

it fitted perfectly on my mikuni 32, just needed to change the plunger.







are your sure you didn't invers the cable?

Thanks for the response, mauri. I don't see any way to inverse the cable-- the tear-drop-shaped end fits in the plunger, and the cylindrical end in the lever body. Unless I'm a total nincompoop (highly plausible), I simply don't see any way to fit it without filing the soldered end.

Like so?

https://ibb.co/hc4ZkK

If filing or using emery cloth/sandpaper will make it fit, and you are certain that is where it has to go, then `a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do`. John Wayne( I think). I have had to file/sandpaper precision parts to make them fit during the course of my working life. People are sometimes not as accurate as robots.

this is how it look on the cable i got, no filling needed.







while yours look nothing like it.

even the inner cable itself looks to thick.

you should contact your host to check you did not get the wrong one!!

Thank you both for the replies. I haven't been too happy with the kit, to be honest. I had purchased one of the pull-up enrichener conversions a few weeks ago, but the threaded end was too large to fit in the carb. Upon contacting Hitchcocks, I was told that there was a mistake in its listing- it was made for a Mikuni, not the Mikcarb. I took the part out to my grinding wheel and reduced the diameter of the threaded neck (it was plastic) and re-threaded it with a helicoil die set. This worked perfectly fine... I don't know what prompted me to buy the handlebar conversion kit. Anyway, I've had a heck of a time with the cable sticking. I took the bike out the other night, and the enrichener stuck in the on position. No amount of fiddling would remedy it and so I had to ride the bike 40 miles home while goosing the throttle at idle so it didn't stall.

To avoid any confusion the cable operated cold start conversion kit from our hosts - part number 90195 - is correct for use with the MIKCARB carburetor and fits fine. (TONUPBOY must have had a different one-off kit.)

No, Presto-- the part number you referenced is the one I've got. It's my understanding this is the only one offered by Hitchcocks. I was actually just informed by Hitchcocks customer service that there's been some variations and discrepancies in the cable end as produced by the manufacturer... apparently, this is something they're currently working to correct.

No, Presto-- the part number you referenced is the one I've got. It's my understanding this is the only one offered by Hitchcocks. I was actually just informed by Hitchcocks customer service that there's been some variations and discrepancies in the cable end as produced by the manufacturer... apparently, this is something they're currently working to correct.