My throttle cable snapped when turning off huffmiester onto cypress church. Hit the gas, and the pedal fell off (not uncommon, my gas pedal isn't properly mounted), so I goto put it back on, and hit the gas, but it's on teh floor! Take the pedal off, and hit the throttle arm, and it's on the floor! I idle over to a gravel road, and pop the hood. My dad suggests over the phone to use a shoes string. Tied a loop around the throttle arm, and tied a knot on the carb's throttle plate. The shoe string stretched so much that top speed was 40 miles per hours, and it took nearly a minute to reach there... You could say I had good MPG!
My dad and neighbor's suggestion for a better temp fix, a coat hanger... and... Hey, the throttle is more responsive than it was with the stock cable!!! Time to look into a linkage setup.
"Shoe String Budget"
Where's a cheap cable replacement, or even a cheap universal linkage setup I can get?
09-01-2009, 12:28 AM
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