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Yes you can have the cable length changed anyway you want. 
If you are just shorting the cable just take the bottom cover off the axle housing in the back and cut to size....
You can shorten the cable and housing yourself. The cable is a normal type cable, and the housing is SIS derailer housing.
http://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-help/cutting-and-sizing-cable-housing
http://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-help/cutting-and-sizing-cable-housing
Do you have the pin that goes in the axle? This gets lost quite often. If you don't let me know I have a work around 
yes, you can do it yourself - you match the cable housing ferrule at the hub bracket holder, and the boss on the hub end of the cable can be mounted anywhere on the cable:
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/nexus-mech.html
it's been awhile since I worked on my daughter's Nexus-8. Didn't change the cable, but changed the drive sprocket up 2 teeth and the chainring down 2 teeth to change her city gears into touring gears.
I found the pdf of the shop manual to tackle hers, and here's the one for your Nexus-3
http://www.retrocyklo.cz/downloads-documents/Shimano Nexus3-178-manual.pdf
actually, try this - what you need to look at is in the installation instructions:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140509152810/http://techdocs.shimano.com/media/techdocs/content/cycle/SI/SI_37P0A/SI-37P0A-002-ENG_v1_m56577569830747494.pdf
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/nexus-mech.html
it's been awhile since I worked on my daughter's Nexus-8. Didn't change the cable, but changed the drive sprocket up 2 teeth and the chainring down 2 teeth to change her city gears into touring gears.
I found the pdf of the shop manual to tackle hers, and here's the one for your Nexus-3
http://www.retrocyklo.cz/downloads-documents/Shimano Nexus3-178-manual.pdf
actually, try this - what you need to look at is in the installation instructions:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140509152810/http://techdocs.shimano.com/media/techdocs/content/cycle/SI/SI_37P0A/SI-37P0A-002-ENG_v1_m56577569830747494.pdf
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Great info.....thought I'd get an answer to two from my Cabe family members before I attacked this "strangulation" potential. I felt the cable seemed long for my liking. Thanks everyone for your input! Now back to the bike dungeon!
Hey Cory...I do have the universal braided housing. Thanks, buddy!Do you have the pin that goes in the axle? This gets lost quite often. If you don't let me know I have a work around
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My other concern is about his that gearbox axel attachment sticks out.....waiting to get tagged off! I ride my mtn bikes hard on technical with derailleurs and they take a beating like my body but this nexus bump out seems fragile. I'll just have to be careful and keep both the bike and me upright!
Just run it with a wire derailleur guard. I think they look cool.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=derailleur+guard
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=derailleur+guard
This thread title makes me think of one thing...
Haha Partsguy.....I know those tags well.....I install window treatments and remove those tags every day! Hopefully, no one lobby's congress to enact a law to attach warning tags to long bike cables!This thread title makes me think of one thing...
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