Originally Posted by
treebound
Second batch of pics
...I can't tell for sure from your picture here, but if you look closely at the front derailleur clamp where the bolt for the front clamp goes into the plastic body, I think I see the crack at the usual spot where these fail. It's not a big deal to replace it with something like a Suntour front mechanism, that has a stop for a cable housing built into it. They work well as replacements.