Re: [ihc] Diesel Accelerator Cable/Throttle Cable

[Dan Nees <cookiedan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What's up Doc?
  I don't know all that much about the cable routing, though I know it
is pulled from the front, not pulled back. 
   What I do know is, with a piece of substantial speaker wire you can
attach it to the throttle, loop it around the injector pipes and feeeed
it through a hole in the fire wall and drive the truck quite some
distance with a hand throttle.. Even the guys in the back seat can work
it if you have enough wire!
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 11:00, josephshaw@domain.elided wrote:
> I need to find out a little bit more about the the throttle linkage system on an SD33 in a Scout.  This is the one that is a '67 body set on a '77 frame and diesel running gear.  I am not sure if the throttle linkage/cable was altered because of this conficguration.
> 
> Mine has a cable attached to the pedal linkage, which then runs up to the front of the engine compartment, then circles back to the throttle controls on the engine.
> 
> Or, I should say, it DID have, as I snipped the cable because it was so worn and frayed that I thought it was some jimmy-rigged wire holding something in place, and it was in my way when I was trouble-shooting something else.  It looked nothing at all like a cable at that point, and it is probably best that I did cut it then, because had I never found out about it that way, I would not have suspected it, and likely would have been driving down a road in the middle of nowhere when it snapped and I would have had no acceleration left!
> 
> Anyway, how is it SUPPOSED to be attached?  Is there a cable set-up, or a more solid connection to the linkage supposed to be there?
> 
> And if it is a cable, is it supposed to run such a tortuous route to get to its destination?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Michael