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I snapped the gas pedal cable on my Tiger about 25 miles from home on Thanksgiving Day. Luckily, I had a coat-hanger in the trunk & the Cruise-Control I had installed made it easier to get home.

My question is, did the inner cable of the acelerator pedal in our cars come as a solid or flexible cable? I've had the car 40+ years, but I don't remember I ever changed it. The one that snapped is a solid cable inside the black plastic-like outer sheathing. People tell me that it should have been a flexible cable, not a solid one like you would use on a heater control. thanks...
 
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Heckle and ridicule the cable as not much better than a bicycle cable. The reproduction ones are a solid steel cable. Take a lesson from VW guys and have a spare in the tire well :) It seems a lot of cars get the pedal stop taken off and that make it breakage easier.

I think the trouble with the wire rope stranded 1 x 19 wire is the lead or soft metal was a weak crimp on link.

Most of the cables back then were plastic over the spiral metal but I have seen one that had a layer of fabric under the plastic like sheathing.
 
Don't mean to hijack the thread but...
My car, a MK1A ...446 has a solid 'rod' for both throttle and hood release... If that is stock, when might they have made that transitiion ??

edit: a friend's BON says the hood release was a 'solid' rod up to B382001200

Jim
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Coat hanger has never failed me. And the price is right . . . . .:p
 
66TigerMK1A said:
Don't mean to hijack the thread but...
My car, a MK1A ...446 has a solid 'rod' for both throttle and hood release... If that is stock, when might they have made that transitiion ??

edit: a friend's BON says the hood release was a 'solid' rod up to B382001200

Jim
B382ooo446
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FWIW, and with all due respect to the BON, the hood release on my B382001447 has always had a solid rod since I got it from the dealer new in late 1967. Of course it also came from the dealer with Mark II seats, so who is to say if the rod the release mechanism (or seats) is/or the same as when the car left the factory.:)

Gene

FWIW as well, my accelerator cable broke on me back in '68. Don't remember its construction,. But I remember raising the idle speed adjustment screw to run the motor at 1500 rpm and limped home on local streets with a lot of clutch action in and out.
 
Sadly the webshots links are all gone these days. But back in 2008 i was leaving a ferrari club show and put the foot into it on the way out... about 2 mins later i opened the throttle and the foot went to the floor... but with no engine response.

i ended up driving home using a camerra cord from the camerra case to pull the throttle.. the tricky part was no return.. had to flick the throttle back with my foot! tense drive home!
 
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Of the coat hanger club since 1989...

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You can always take a shoelace out of one of your shoes and build a "hand throttle" to get yourself home.

Those who wear Crocs or velcro, tough luck.
 
I have a twisted strand cable on mine and a threaded cable housing. Never was sure if that was original or from PO. Didn't seem correct but it worked. It would be perfect if the housing portion of it was on the other side of the wall but there is absolutely no room for it. Mounted on this side it should be angling up about the same amount rather than down.

Quite a bear to get a nut on by yourself without pushing it back out of the hole and the housing, lock washer and a nut have to be on the cable when it's fabed.

I ran it with just the cable for many years without a problem.

michael-king said:
i opened the throttle and the foot went to the floor... but with no engine response.
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I had the opposite happen to me using the cable without the housing. I was on the 405 south just coming out of the south bay curve, for you locals knowing what the traffic is like. Everyone doing at least 65-75 except the guy I was coming up on in front of me. About a car length between everyone except the car to my right. I gave the pedal a push and was just clearing his front bumper when someone from the his right filled the hole and I was boxed in and coming up real quick on the guy in front. So I backed off the throttle but I kept going. I knew in an instant what had happened. The cable had hacksawed a slot down through the firewall and got stuck. It was just a matter of reaching down and giving the pedal a firm pull. Continued on home without a problem and put the housing back on. The slot was a good half inch deep.
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