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Old 12-06-10, 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by silver_ghost
This sounds to me like there's some moisture in the housing, which freezes in the cold and seizes up the cable. Then when you downshift and let the cable go slack, it takes the housing with it, instead of sliding through.

You might be able to flush the water out with WD-40, but if I were you, I'd just replace the cable and housing. Cables and housing are cheap, and you can think of it as preventitive maintenance as well as solving your current problem.
I've thought about that, but I can get the cable to slide through the housing without difficulty when this happens... The only mechanism I can think of is that the sliding pin that goes into the hub is sticking, so the little finger in the clickbox that pushes it doesn't move even when cable is let out. Thoughts?
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