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On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 11:18, Toby Erkson wrote: > > That was the only time I've had an accelerator cable break. In South > Carolina my clutch cable broke but I was lucky that it happened only a > couple blocks from the Naval base (back when it existed in Charleston) > so I was able to drive it to the on-base rental garages and fix it. I > guess the 3.5 day trip from Oregon in the middle of January took it's > toll on that cable ;-) > Jim, Do we need to do a throttle cable adjustment how-to??? If you are breaking cables at the front, or the very rear piece, the cable is too tight. If you are breaking cables in the middle, it is not aligned, and is rubbing something. The arm the cable hooks to at the front is supposed to be the stop on travel, not the carbs. Have someone, or a brick hold the pedal all the way down. (with the engine off). Now at the engine, make sure there is still a slight amount of travel in the carb linkage. This way you know you are not straining the cable to get that last little bit when going up that mountain grade. Is your arm at the front bent from pushing too hard. I wish I had a dollar for each one I have straightened. -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~