I cannot for the life of me get the RD cable through the chainstay. A cable housing is no problem. But the electronic cable plug is rather long and stiff and it seems there’s a bend in the cable entry port at the rear drop out that I just can’t get the plug to pass. What’s more is that my internal cabling tool is useless for this bc you can’t connect it to the electronic cable in any way. So I keep taping it to shift cable housing and try to pull it through from both ends. But no success. It tears off every time.
Any tips?
It was certainly a task for me as well - there is a pretty tight turn at the end of the dropout that makes getting the length of the hard plug end of the shifting cable through difficult.
I ended up going to other way - I ran the cable guide through with some thread tied to the end of it, tied the other end of the thread to the shifter plug that will go into the batter, and then softly finessed it down into the chainstay - the thread being much more able to maneuver the positioning of the cable - and then brought it through and fished it into the bottom bracket opening.
It was a small pain, but nothing substantial, to then plug the cable into the battery in the confines of the bottom bracket opening, but i was able to get it done and then turn the frame back upside and retrieve the battery for installation into the seattube.
What a night.
