Would someone be kind enough to post or send a couple of photos showing their mixture and throttle cable routing and clamps on a mid 70's Cessna 180? Mine is a 1976. The parts book is not much help. It would be greatly appreciated.

Can't help specifically, but I want to offer a comment about control cable placement for your consideration, learned the hard way. My engine was installed in June 2003. I've been flying the airplane pretty regularly ever since, between 60 and 65 hours per year. Early this year, when I tried to start it one morning, I got nothing. The battery was good, the master had clicked on (it's in the tail next to the battery, I can hear the solenoid, and the various electrical items that come on with the master came on), but when I turned the key, there was nothing. Thinking back now, I don't recall hearing the starter solenoid click, but it must have. But in any event, there was no movement of the starter, which had worked flawlessly for almost 13 years.

So after a phone call, I towed the airplane to the hangar of my engine guy. We pulled the upper cowl off, and in seconds he discovered the problem--but it was not the starter. The prop control cable sheath and the main electrical cable to the starter from the starter solenoid had been rubbing slightly, and finally the insulation on the starter cable had worn through, causing a dead short when I activated the starter solenoid.

My guess is that when the engine was installed, the two cables weren't in contact at all. Over the years, with engine vibration and jostling from landings and taxiing on rougher ground, they came closer together. Neither I nor my IA ever noticed that. Now they are held apart by a pair of adel clamps with some heavy insulation on the starter cable.

Just something to keep in mind when you route your control cables.

Cary