accelerator cable snapped dam dam

On or around Thu, 03 Feb 2005 05:48:22 +0000, John Oakes enlightened us thusly:

diesel or petrol?

either way, I suspect not enough free play in the cable. On a diesel the idle speed is set by adjustment on the pump, the cable should be slack. ditto on a petrol, except the adjustment's on the carb.

'course, on the V8 hotwire, it decides for itself what speed to idle at - on mine, anything between 750 (correct) and 2000 revs have been observed.

Happened to me once, I removed the rubber bung from by the fuse box (defender) and ran a piece of rope from the linkage to the cab, drove by hand throttle for a couple of hundred miles or so until I could get a new one.

Best to get a new one pronto, when fitting it there is an obvious screwey uppy thingy to take-up any slack. be sure your pedal hits metal before the linkage on the engine runs out of movement to prevent straining the cable.

Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)

PS, when I replaced mine I used a pattern one which lasted 2 days so replaced it with a genuine LR one which has the inner cable plastic coated and gives a much lighter pedal which I found preferable.

Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)