I went to check the valve clearance on my bike today, and it said I needed to check the "automatic decompression cable" first.  I was following the directions in the Clymer, and got to part 11 (page 49):

"Pull up on the actuator lever assembly and check the end length of the shaft.  The actuator shaft should move out of the body 3-5 mm.  This amount of free play is necessary for the compressor to operate correctly."

Okay, so what exactly am I checking?  What is the actuator shaft and actuator body?  It has a picture pointing to the actuator lever assembly, but the rest seemed a little unclear to me.  And what am I pulling "up" on?  the cable?  Cause I sure can't pull "up" on the thing with the spring wrapped around it that the arrow's pointing to in the picture.

Thanks!

ah, perfect, thanks.  I did a search for "actuator" and got one irrelevant post.  I think it just occurred to me that using the search box near the top of the page only seems to search for posts from the last week or so, and I need to actually click on the search link to do my searching.