The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area General Truck Talk How do you remove choke / throttle cable knobs? 52

My truck has the wrong knobs on the choke and throttle cables.(it's a 52 half ton) I have a pair of correct original knobs on broken cables and I would like to swap them for the knobs in the truck. Is there a way to get the darn things off the metal shaft on the end of the cable without destroying the knobs? thanks

pat

No, they are cast onto the cables, you need to replace the whole cable.
DG

They give a method of doing this in the "How to restore your Chevrolet Pickup" book but personally I wouldn't spend my time doing it. If I remember correctly they cut the old cable off, drilled out the knob and siver soldered it onto the new cable.

For my 54's cables I held the stem that the knob attaches to and held it a bench vise, then I heated the stem with a propane torch just enough to where I was able to pull the knob off the the stem. Then i used 5 minute epoxy to attach the old knob to the new cable.

I found a throttle cable/knob at a swap meet but the cable was too short. I cut it off and put the shaft/knob in a lathe and drilled a hole in the end. The local piano rebuilding shop miked my original wire and gave me a piece of piano wire the same diameter which I brazed onto the shaft/knob. Wire free, knob/shaft one dollar, brazing fifty cents. End results? Priceless! That was 10 years ago and it is still intact.