The choke cable in the Rover was good and stuck, and no amount of penetrating oil that I was able to spray into the housing was going to change that. Not only that, but in trying to get the cable free I had broken the sheath away from the housing. The cable has to be able to work in both directions, so that was no good.

I took the cable out of my parts car, but that one had a broken cast-metal housing, and it couldn't be fixed. Are new cables available? I couldn't find them online. Then I noticed that the $15 choke cable I'd bought for the SU conversion I'm doing on the Spitfire had a very similar kind of housing, just longer. Hmmm.

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