[Nick912]

Hey All,

I am rapidly nearing the end of my '67 restoration, and I realized today that with the accelerator matted my throttle was only opening a small amount.

Got underneath the car and found that the "slack" is in the coathanger-like fitting on the end of the linkage piece that attaches to the button fitting on the tranny bell crank and runs up through the engine sheet metal to a ball and cup fitting on the forward side of the fan shroud on the engine.

The button pops into the loop of wire at the rear end and then slides forward, but it only slides about halfway in that loop, so when I hit the gas pedal all of its travel goes towards sliding that button down the rest of the way on the wire loop, only at the end pulling it forward at all to open the throttle a little bit.

Apologies for the involved description, but I have tried to take up "slack" by screwing down the ball fittings in various places but it's not enough. Should I just twist the end of the coathanger-type fitting to shorten it up? ALL suggestions welcome!

Thanks!


Nick