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tweetdriver63 wrote:I've never been happy with my shifting since I got the AB cables a few years ago. I immediately lost the centering when I installed them, and third gear has been tough ever since then too.
rip wrote:tweetdriver63 wrote:I've never been happy with my shifting since I got the AB cables a few years ago. I immediately lost the centering when I installed them, and third gear has been tough ever since then too.
I had that but cured it.
The AB cables have a brass sleeve (or more like a bush or thick washer - you'll know it if you fitted them yourself). This fits onto a pin on the crossgate selector at the gearbox end. This was a really tight fit: Far too tight for the centering spring to cope with.
I dug out my needle files to enlarge the hole a little, tidied it up with some fine wet & dry then added a blob of grease before re-assembly.
Back on to topic & I my financial situation should change slightly next week so I may be interested in a spare set of cables after all.
I notice that you offer international shipping via USPS, United States Postal Service. In my experience, this is not the best way ship if you want to maximise the final value you receive for your wheel, for this reason.
USPS will get the item to the UK. The Royal Mail will then take over the delivery of your item in the UK. They will then look at the stated value on your shipping labels and documents enclosed. They will then SOMETIMES apply VAT at 20% on the stated value, to hand over to our Chancellor, AND THEN, apply a VERY REASONABLE handling charge of say £18, for their trouble!!!!!!!!!!! They then send you a friendly little note, to say that all monies are payable at their depot, before delivery of the item.
How do I know this? Because it happened to me when I bought 2 pistons from Bean a couple of years ago. Fortunately, the amount involved was small, as Bean was jobbing out the pistons cheap to clear, and therefore the amount the robbers at the RM wanted on top was not excessive, taking into account the VAT, but with your parts, the extras when landed in the UK, could add up to over £100.
How to get round this. Again, in my experience, use a different courier. Use UPS, or maybe Fed Ex, not USPS. Certainly UPS bring the item in to the UK themselves, and deliver it themselves, in their lovely brown vans, but do not charge anything on top, other than what you have paid the seller to get the item to you.
For my part, I do not buy items from the USA when I see the courier is USPS.
Good luck with the sale.
Les
Brit-Car-Nut wrote:I have finally got a test setup of cables and adapters I am happy with. I have machined enough adapter parts for 4 sets of cables and they now need to go for anodizing which will take around a week...
...I am working on an installation guide that should be like the one from the Lotus Service Manual.
...I plan to have the cables and adapters fully assembled when you receive the kit.
...I am trying to get small wrenches made for each kit so you don't have to buy some cheap wrenches and cut them down.
Squirtydog wrote:Definitely in for a pair for SE. Shipped to UK. Cheaper than the £600+ for lotus parts.
Not sure what your list of interested parties will look like but PM me when you have a pair available to ship.
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