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348 snapped throttle cable...

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  1. burriana

    burriana Formula 3

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    ... and it would decide to go the evening before the first Dawn Run of the year!

    However, using calm and Buddist-like reasoning ... at least it went at home and not 70 miles away on top of the North Yorkshire Moors, and I've saved £50 of fuel :)

    Any road up, can anyone suggest the best place to order a replacement from please (preferrably UK), and does anyone know how the hell to fit it? I have found a couple of threads about sticky pedals, but not actually replacing the cable.

    Thanks in advance :)
     
  2. No Doubt

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    Are you certain that it snapped, rather than just having slipped off of its guide cam? If so, slip it back on the cam and perhaps tighten the cable a bit with its lock nuts.


    It's easy to replace, by the way. You're just running a wire from your pedal, through the center console tunnel, to the back of your motor, and tightening it down with two nuts.



    Also: http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81739
     
  3. burriana

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    Thanks ND ... I'll have a close look in the engine bay before ripping my pedal to pieces!

    :)
     
  4. No Doubt

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    #4 No Doubt, Apr 22, 2008
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    Good man!


    Just pop the engine bonnet and check that the cable is correctly under/on part #17:
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  5. burriana

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    Thanks.

    I have that diagram from another thread ... except the numbers are different! :D
     
  6. TheOnlyest

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    Happened to me once... of course I freaked, but only took a second to notice what had happened, fixed in a jiffy!
     
  7. burriana

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    Wish I'd thought to check on the saturday evening. Ended up as a passenger on a cracking run in the morning :(
     
  8. burriana

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    BINGO!

    The wonder that is the forum massif strikes again :)

    Checked at the engine end this time and there it was, cable slipped off the cam. Slipped it back on, liberal spray of WD40 lubricant around the whole throttle assembly, saw it was pretty slack so tightened up the little nuts and voila! better than before.

    I even found why it was slightly sticking. A breather hose had gotten the wrong side of the left bank throttle arm and was catching.

    Thanks guys :)
     
  9. No Doubt

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    You are *so* buying me a drink when I bring my wife back to the UK (I proposed to her there).
     
  10. burriana

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    After intermittent electronic conversations over the last 4 years or so it would be my pleasure mate :)

    Where did you propose to your wife?
     
  11. No Doubt

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    Just outside of Parliament on my knee in front of Big Ben. Made a female cop (bobby?!) cry as she watched on.
     
  12. burriana

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    Well, I guess Big Ben's one of the biggest erections in London so she'll have been in the right frame of mind :D
     
  13. burriana

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    Just a thought ...

    I tightened the two small nuts on the adjusting thread to take up the slack in the cable ... should I re-visit and put some real effort into trying to get the cable as tight as physically possible or is simply "no excess slack" good enough.
     
  14. PAP 348

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    Nope, leave it be mate. :):)

    You DO NOT want to over-tighten that cable. ;);)
     
  15. burriana

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