Re: Broken Trottle Cable Teaser

[Daniel Youngquist <dany@domain.elided>]

On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Rob Kasper wrote:

> Even though I (still) live in the Haight-Ashbury district in San
> Francisco and the homeless (on foot and living in vehicles) find duct
> tape a valuable commodity, I do keep it behind the seat and did have
> it with me but there wasn't anything left of the part of the cable
> that sticks through the firewall.
> That part is pretty short to start with. The visegrips had been
> holding on to just a few strands... so it really didn't break (in two)
> it just pulled off the little bit still sticking out of the firewall.
> I did try to "lengthen" the cable with duct tape but it would slip off
> in one or two pumps.

You could've made a loop in the cable (have to cut off some of the cable
housing first), then made some duct tape into a string long enough to go
through the firewall and pull on the loop.  Or, turn up the idle speed
to 1500 or 2000 RPM, or as close as it'll go, and drive home. 

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