Accelerator cable not translating pedal movement to carb action Options

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Hope everybody is having a good weekend and thanks in advance for any thoughts or suggestions.

I have it should be an easy problem to solve that I haven’t solved – I believe the accelerator cable that came in this project is simply too long because when the gas pedal is pressed the cable flexes to a point where the physical motion from the gas pedal doesn’t translate to the same pull on the carb linkage. In other words, the cable moves around enough that it doesn’t effectively pull the carburetor linkage to increase power.

I have a replacement cable, but before I go through that I wanted to ask to see if there’s something that maybe other people encountered or that comes to mind that I’m missing.

Cable has the red arrows pointing to it.

Thanks!

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Oh geez - did the PO route the throttle cable through the wrong opening? It should be near the larger speedometer fitting, right?

Should be like circled in red, correct?

[SirAndy]

Oh geez - did the PO route the throttle cable through the wrong opening?

Well, yes, they did. For starters, it isn't supposed to go up and through the hole for the rubber snorkel. In fact, you can see that they had to remove the snorkel top from the hole to make space for the cable (and amp wire).
No wonder it broke, trying to make a 90 degree bend right there.
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