Welcome to the club of broken boats Pay here$ bend over and move along.
It does what . You can run the cable however you want, maybe someone in the past ordered the wrong cable (to short) and thats the only way it fit. BTW, Tom at JBP has realy good prices on cables too, and will probobly know what lenght you need before you tell him.
They are all fukin tasty. My long time favorite, "Dirty Dicks -beerjet-
Glasscutter, Skip, OC2 Nordie and many more nail me good every time, relentlessly, I love those guys!
x2go paint your engine proppy