Broken cable in STI lever

[merlin321]

Hello,
I have searched various sites for an answer to this but to no avail. Please help!
The inner gear change cable has broken off on the rear cassette STI lever (right side lever as you are on the bike).
I`m not massivly mechanically minded but thought I`d have a go a replacing the cable myself. Removed the broken one ok but cannot for the life of me see how the new one locates into the lever. I had a look at the left side lever, and that seems obvious how the cable-end fits in.
When the cable broke I was on the middle front ring and the smallest cassette ring.

It would appear that I am either more mechanically challenged than I thought, or there is something else that I am not doing?

If anybody can give me any advice, I would be hugely grateful.

Cheers all, have a safe and good New year.

 

[Flying Dodo]

Generally, you feed the new cable in from underneath.

Scroll down towards the very end of this tutorial from Park Tools.

 

[Fattman]

Umm I seem to remember from memory that this applies to gear cables: many cables come with two nodules on - one on each end; one is for Shimano and the other for Campagnolo. You need to snip off the unneeded end, then you thread it in. Can't remember which is which though! Sorry if you've done that already...

You don't say which shifters you have; for Shimano Tiagra (and I think this applies to Sora, and some older Shimano where the gear cable doesn't route under the bar tape) you have to operate the small lever to get the cogs in the right place. Then pull the brake lever to expose the gubbins, and you thread the cut end of the cable through a small hole on the right of the exposed workings. Pull it all the way through and it should sit neatly, and when you shift the big lever you will see it pull the cable.

Good luck!

Matt

 

[zigzag]

click the the shifter, so that it is in highest gear, then depress the brake lever. you should see a hole from the right where the inner cable should go into. make sure you put a bit of lube on the inner cable before sliding the outer on.