How to loosen up the stiffness in the throttle cable it won't release back to idle I took it apart and put some WD 40 to loosen it up and it still won't release all the way

Adjustment located on the cable itself is the only thing I can think of.

Some cables have an adjustment sleeve on them, some don't. If you don't have it, you have to adjust cable tension by bending the bracket that holds the cable by the poly roller.

Before doing that, are you sure everything else is set right?

Ill look again when u get home but u dint see any thing to adjust it hate to start bending stuff when I'm not to fimillar with it

Is the cable still tight when throttle is released? If not, then you've got another issue & don't need to adjust cable. If it IS still tight, & you do NOT have the adjustment barrel on the cable, then you'd bend the tab in circled in the pic to adjust tension on the cable.

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Ill have to check and see u recently got my boat and motor painted thinking it has something to do with that cause I've had it on there for bout 4 months now and it never have me trouble before I got it painted

Yeah, coulda just got some bad paint. Happens quite often. Try stripping it down & start from scratch again.


j/k

Ya bad paint that's prob the problem. Haha ima have to call camo design tell him to re do it cause my throttle is sticking.
Ima mess with it when I get home see if it loosend up
Any

Ricky would shit!!!

Could that be. A possible problem over spray got
On it

No, more likely he bumped something while taping/masking it off. Probably just a simple adjustment.

Are you saying that the cable is to short now to release the tension on the carb, or that the cable is binding in cable housing? ( slack at the throttle lever/ grip) . If you have enough length and its not returning it sounds like you might have a broken strand unraveling some where in the housing causing it to bind.

I could feel it was real tight when I was running at 1/2 throttle ad when go to accelerate all the way it was very tight and when I got back to landing te cable stayed stuck and it was idling at like 2500 rpm
It wouldn't let it release I could t even push it back with my thumb
It would never go back all the way but I could always jut push it back with my thumb

Yeah, that's a lil different than it just idles too high. There's more info than I was getting.

Prob best I change it