Hi guys,

Anyone happen to have a choke cable assembly for sale?

Working on my project and could use a starter/choke cable if someone has an extra laying around that they don't need.

Cheers!

Quote from: RPM - Robert on Yesterday at 12:00:16 PMThose cables are pre lubed you won't need to lube them for awhile.

We use tri flow to lube ours. Has a little bit of teflon in it and that helps them slide in the plastic tube liner.

The pull cable might a have a bit of slack but is the push cable adjusted properly?

Positive you don't have a vacuum leak somewhere? Depending on year the igniter box had a vacuum timing advance that can fail and cause a vacuum leak.

Greetings Robert,

This bike was pretty neglected by it's P.O. There's a solid chance there might be something wrong the ignition box. Do you have a testing procedure I can run through on it?

The intake boots were just replaced due to vacuum leak around the brass nipples on the previous set. Also replaced the caps and vacuum petcock line. (Also rebuilt the petcock with the RPM kit) I'll have to double check the line that goes from the boot to the box here soon.

Those cables are pre lubed you won't need to lube them for awhile.

We use tri flow to lube ours. Has a little bit of teflon in it and that helps them slide in the plastic tube liner.

The pull cable might a have a bit of slack but is the push cable adjusted properly?

Positive you don't have a vacuum leak somewhere? Depending on year the igniter box had a vacuum timing advance that can fail and cause a vacuum leak.

Guys,

Great news — the bike has been recovered!

The police found it ditched about 10 minutes away from us. The ignition was removed, but the bike is still in one piece.

What a relief... whoo!

Still can't believe that happened.

Thank you everyone for keeping an eye on it 

Thankyou everyone for keeping eye on it

nice looking FJ, how do you like that touring wind screen? I also have an 86 but with stock wind screen and I'm taller and catch a lot of wind at highway speeds, I'm thinking to get the touring screen.

Hey Gang! Picked up a resurrected 86 FJ1200 this winter and looking forward to Spring riding. Wanted to get the opinion of those who have experience with either the HB Junior 30s and 40s. I'm considering both sets and have the "Endro" option (1-30L and 1-40L) as well. Not sure I need 40L for commuting to work every day but wanted to hear from some of you road warriors. Will a large helmet fit into a 30L? Thanks!

thanks Billy, been using wd40 for years without issue but sometimes you don't know what you don't know so I'm open to changing.

Back when cable sheaths had a lining of nylon inside then the application of the WD40 caused the nylon to expand in the sheath and "grab" the cable and stop it from sliding.
Whether cables sheaths are made like that now i don't know but i never use WD40 on cables because the problem once happened to me.

Hi Red, I'm curious why not to use WD-40 for throttle cable lube?

Quote from: Warp84 on March 09, 2026, 07:17:09 PMWhat lube should I be using? . . . All the cables move freely and with no noise. There's a small amount of play on the grip before the pull cable is engaged, so it's not constantly applying pressure.

Warp84,
Any light petroleum grease (*NOT* WD-40, which is just kerosene) will do the job there. Get the aerosol can with the skinny red straw.  No Lithium (white) grease, there.
Then this gadget, at most bike shops and Amazon, will make cable lube easy:

Cable Lube Tool

HTH.