How to tighten throttle cable?
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How to tighten throttle cable? Noticed the other day that there's a little slack in my throttle cable. When the pedal is mashed to the floor the throttle does not hit the bump stop on the throttle body. Checked it on autotap and sure enough it's only opening 95%.
theres a little black cylinder looking thing on the line. Its kindof hard to explain, but basically, it unsnaps, you move the ends farther apart, and snap it back together. Sorry, but no pictures.
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theres a little black cylinder looking thing on the line. Its kindof hard to explain, but basically, it unsnaps, you move the ends farther apart, and snap it back together. Sorry, but no pictures.
this is about as good a descrption as your going to get unless someone has pics....the cables come lose just from gettin tugged on here or there....youll see it sitting on the throttle cable its kinda hard to miss Thread Starter
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Thanks for the help guys I think I got it figured out now. I'll give it a shot tomorrow.
And for the guys lookin for the pics I found some in another thread:
And for the guys lookin for the pics I found some in another thread:
Yep...that's it. Make sure you mess with it...it wasn't as intuitive as I thought. I adjusted it wrong, and my throttle body was only opening to 85% 
I felt like a tard, because I just did it and didn't check.
I felt like a tard, because I just did it and didn't check. Thread Starter
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Yep...that's it. Make sure you mess with it...it wasn't as intuitive as I thought. I adjusted it wrong, and my throttle body was only opening to 85% I felt like a tard, because I just did it and didn't check.
I felt like a tard, because I just did it and didn't check.Trending Topics
If I remember right, you actually have to pull the cables away from each other instead of pulling them towards each other to get rid of the slack. For some reason, that just didn't compute in my head...
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