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Gas pedal to the floor??
What the heck happend?? I was going to Raley's for a Latte' and down shifted comming to a corner and the gas pedal goes to the floor and WHAAAAAAAAAAA goes my engine! I am after having the bejesus scared out of me,I am able to shut it off and coast to the curb. Did the accelerator cable break or is there a throttle return spring I need to look at? I can reach in the tunnel near the pedal cluster and there is a lot of slack on the cable but I can't pull it out. Help! I hate the thought of commuting and putting gas in the F-150!
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04-18-2004, 05:48 PM
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There should be a spring at the throttle body and it could have broken. Or the set screw holding the rod end of the throttle cable to the throttle arm may have come out. We use dual springs, one on the throttle arm and a second, loose one on the rod portion of the cable. Since the engine revved well, I'd bet on the former?????
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04-18-2004, 07:43 PM
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That does scare the crap outta ya, huh? BTDT only I was gettin' on it & by the time I was shifting the tach was hittin 4500. So, needless to say, when I pushed in the clutch the tach bounced off the 7K mark
 It was the spring. I had the same thought with the cable but, luckily, the spring was the easy fix ...........b
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I had a really rusty floorboard and the gas pedal was hanging by one screw. The rod that goes through the wood floorboard would get stuck on the wood and I would have to reach around the back of the pedal and pull it out. It was like second nature, like down-shifting a motorcycle.
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YOU GUYS ARE GOOD! I looked where the throttle return spring WAS and didn't see it, felt around and found what was left of it! Off to True Value Hardware, easy fix for $1.82 and that's for 2 springs. Thanks very much for the help.
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