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GS450 brake cable

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Hey everyone,
I am new to this forum and need some help. I bought an 83 GS450T that has a front drum brake. The brake cable needs replaced, but the local shop says they have nothing in their books for a front drum brake, only disc brake. Anyone know anything to help.
 
It looks like this cable (Suzuki part # 58100-44700) is NLA, and there's no aftermarket listing I can find.

Where do you live? If there's a decent motorcycle salvage yard somewhere around, they should be able to find you a good used cable -- they'll need the old one to visually match it to what they have available.

You could also have a cable made, assuming there's enough left of the old one to serve as a model for the new one -- Motion Pro offers this service: http://www.motionpro.com/motorcycle/custom/

Flanders sells the parts and fittings needed:
http://www.flanderscables.com/FlanCableSearch.html
 
Welcome to the forums!

A front drum brake on an '83 model sounds rather odd... perhaps someone fitted an earlier front end or one from a different bike altogether?

My '82 450 has a disc front end and I don't recall seeing any other 450's with anything other than a disc front end...

Either way, hopefully Bwringer's links get you out of trouble.
 
I thought an '83 with drum brakes sounded odd too, but if you look at the fiche, there it is.
 
Oh wow, how'd I miss that? :eek:

I thought I'd been through all the 450 fiche's from around that era for one reason or another, definitely missed that though!
 
Greetings and Salutations!!

Greetings and Salutations!!

Hi Mr. jcains,

Good luck in your quest for a cable. Often you can also get lucky on Ebay and find good used parts.

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Thanks for your input guys. You seems like a very knowlegable group.
I have posted some pics in my album if interested.
 
Ok, went and took a peek... that is a sweet lookin' 450 you have there :)

Love the paint work, it's very tidy.
 
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