I decided to fit cable operated hydraulic brakes on my graëvel bice and l thought the silver thing was to attach the cable housing to eachother, but what the fuck? The silver thing has a thread that you can thread onto the end bit of the cable housing coming from the brake leavers. But on the other end its not connected to anything? I thought the whole assembly was the black piece goes over cable, then silver thing goes over tye black piece so when silver thing gets tightened onto the other piece of the other cable housing it pulls it together??
I am about to go bananas, am I missing something?
by PlayTitanfall
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Inline barrel adjuster?
It looks like a barrel adjuster, used to adjust the cable tension to accommodate pad wear and cable settling (stretch). Some types, depending on the design are held together by the cable tension, you need to install it and the cable to get it all to stay together properly
Looks to me like a barrel adjuster, used for adjusting the tension in the brake cable. I beleive the long black sleeve should be inserted intot he metal outer sleeve, and it shouldn’t easily fall out. Trying pushing the black sleeve back intot the outer metal one, it should click into place.
Get ready for the wettest, most brutal gravel anywhere, Fred.
I just grabbed one of these off my workbench. As others mentioned, it’s an in-line expanding barrel adjuster. The threaded bolt portion should screw into the black portion. The silver portion should rotate freely but is usually spring loaded against the threaded bolt. On mine, the silver/black bits are always stuck together even when the threaded bit is unscrewed (keeps things tidy). The black housings will rotate, so it’s nice to have a cable end on there. The threaded bit will not (I guess that could be vise versa depending on which part you hold)
I would suggest threading the exposed portion back in all the way, removing as much slack as possible, then expanding it to take up any additional slack you missed. I didn’t think cable disks were compatible with sir velos though.
Pretty common on motorcycle throttle cables.