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Quick job while "staying at home" can someone give me a clue how to...

Post by jimbo » Sun Mar 29, 2020 3:26 pm

...refit my throttle cable at the throttle body end, as it came loose on a drive back from Crieff (limped it home from Stonehaven with what felt like only mm's of travel left on the pedal) and only just getting round to looking at it now.

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Post by campbell » Sun Mar 29, 2020 7:03 pm

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Post by UncleRon » Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:44 pm

Could you attach or e-mail some pics of your throttle cable from the locknuts at holding clamp beside throttle body and then cable going round the 'half moon' on the throttle body itself?

Assuming you are running a standard Rover K series throttle body I could send you pics of my S1 throttle body and cable if that would help too.

Cables have been known to snap......

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Post by jimbo » Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:22 am

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Sorry for the delay, hopefully these are clear enough but I can easy take more if needed

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Post by m3rrd » Thu Apr 02, 2020 1:29 pm

Looks like the cables slipped out of the retaining bracket shown in your 4th photo, should be a quick fix to shove it back into the slot on the bracket between the two nuts on the threaded part of the cable then tighten up the lock nut [left hand nut] to secure it onto the bracket.

Had another look at your photos and it looks like the cables not been fitted to the bracket between the two nuts and that’s why it’s came loose. If it’s been a new cable that’s been fitted it may have been done like that to take up the slack in the cable( thread on Seloc mentioned new cables may be longer than the originals)
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Post by jimbo » Thu Apr 02, 2020 6:52 pm

Cool thanks I'll have a bash. It's a new cable fitted back end of last year by Craig at CMC.
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Post by jimbo » Thu Apr 02, 2020 6:53 pm

UncleRon wrote:
Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:44 pm
Could you attach or e-mail some pics of your throttle cable from the locknuts at holding clamp beside throttle body and then cable going round the 'half moon' on the throttle body itself?

Assuming you are running a standard Rover K series throttle body I could send you pics of my S1 throttle body and cable if that would help too.

Cables have been known to snap......
Pics for reference would be very helpful if poss :thumbsup
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Post by fd » Thu Apr 02, 2020 10:46 pm

adjust the nuts on the end of the cable (that were not properly tightened by the person that fitted it) so that the throttle fully closes, but only just . . . there should be almost no slack in the cable.

Don't induce any twist in the cable itself when locking the nuts . . .

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Post by Mikie711 » Sun Apr 05, 2020 2:32 am

Looks like the cable end is out of the cam for the throttle body as well. Need to insert the cable end into the plastic cam before re-installing the cable tensioner.
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