USMC5811

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Im trying to button up my 408 and my throttle cable is loose and has a lot of slack and my gas pedal has no pressure. How do i remove the excess slack ?!

zerogravity779

iTrader: (1)

I read up on this, and saw two diffrent was to do it. One, was go tto an autoparts store and purchase a new cable end, measure how much cable it cut, cut it, and feed it through the new cable end that secures the cut end with a screw. I tried this with an old bike brake cable and the newly cut end frayed. So for me it didnt work.
I read on some import forum another method. This one worked for me, cost me NOTHING, because I had the parts at home. Took only a few minutes to do, and it worked!! Heres what I did, I will post pics, with details above each pick:

I went out to the bike I tried to adjust the cable on, and took off the cable adjuster.




Located the throttle cable, and looked at all the "extra" slack in the cable.



Pulled the pedal close to the firewall, and pulled the extra cable through the hole in the top of the pedal



Then I slipped the cable tension adjuster on the cable. At this point, I used the locknut from the bikes other brake cable so my cable tension adjuster has two lock nuts. I left about 1/8-1/4 inck of slack so the cable was not too tight. You want a little bit of slack so the cable is not applying a faulse throttle input.

USMC5811

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i found the little adjuster thingy about half way back on the cable and popped the clip off but i dont know what to do now......

zerogravity779

iTrader: (1)

I have never heard of that.... let me know what you find out.

Chaos07

Once you pop the clip up. Push the cable out on the throttle body side n then push the clip back down to lock the cable back.

USMC5811

iTrader: (2)

So push the slack of the cable down by the throttle body back up into the line then clip it down?

jimmyblue

iTrader: (11)

There are one or two cable adjusters in the engine bay,
depending on whether you have ASR/TCS or not. They
only do part of the job apiece.

I've done gas pedal spacers like you show, only not so
neat. In the end I just pulled and rebent the arm on the
pedal.

If you have ASR/TCS you may find that the "gizmo" is
hanging up your maximum draw-length. I went to the
non-ASR cable set to bypass this problem. It was not
a problem with the stock TB, just a bit on the wrong
side of it with the 85mm TB, no idea about what a
bigger or different brand would see.

mrhtl

Not sure how much slack you have, but v6 cars with mechanical pedals have a shorter cable than stock ls1 cars. you could try that if you wanted a completely stock non-hacked up one.

I noticed this when I was swapping my V6 cable for the donor car's LS1 cable