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Throttle Linkage

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tcoupekyle:
Yup Morse cable here too

JEFF/21C:
my throttle is a horse shoe shaped on it's side that you can lift with your toe and the cable is attached to the upper part close to the driver when depressed pulls in a normal fashion  and a positive stop so you don't over extend the travel hurting the carb or bellcrank

THE FRENCHTOWN FLYER:
I now use Morse cables on my cars. Because:
In 2000 I got out of shape and crashed head-on into the concrete guard wall. The block plate balooned forward about two inches and trapped the throttle rod and pinched it in the WOT position. Amazingly the car spun around still running at WOT and headed back toward the starting line where about 700 people were standing around. Thanks to an in-cockpit master shut-off switch I was able to kill the engine even though I was semi conscious and temporarily blinded by the impact (Now I know why the blindfold cockpit test is important.)

wideopen231:
You mean tghere is somthing other than Morse cable? Bever had anything else in 38 years of racing everything from bracket 6.5 second car to TA/D. Esy install vesitle and no problem aking push/ or opposite..

lake_harley:
Cable it is. Made a bracket to hold the cable at the carburetor today. Cable will "push" the throttle open and have positive "pull" return. Return will be springs, of course, but also have a loop over the foot on the throttle to be able to pull it closed in case of a broken spring or something hanging up.

Thanks for the input. Also appreciate the reasoning for a cable (thanks FTF) rather than hard linkage.

Lynn

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