Ultegra front changer cable

[ayceejay]

Please don't tell me that this is a simple job! I poked out the old cable and watched where it came from, the lever was all the way over to the smallest chainring. Threading the new cable should be a simple matter of threading it in the reverse of the old one, right? The problem is that there is no hole at the end, I can trace the route of the cable backward through the outer casing to the lever over the changing mechanism but there is no exit, is there something I am missing? I am very frustrated with this.

 

[ianrauk]

This may help.
If it's the left hand lever then you need to push the smallest lever to the lowest crank setting before threading.

 

[ayceejay]

I did that Ian (see above)

 

[2Loose]

The hole should become visible when the lever is moved to one of its extreme gear positions...
Although when I last did it I kept swinging the lever slightly when 'opening it' and obscured the hole I was looking for.
I wonder if that is what is happening.