Serious help needed please. Bay throttle cable length ?
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Serious help needed please. Bay throttle cable length ?
Please help,....we cocked up !!!!
Old cable removed in 2 pieces,......taken to cable maker to make up new. When I fetched,.....my mistake was to check..... big mistake,.....No! i don't need the old parts,......chuck it away !,
So ?!!! To our surprise this afternoon the cable is too short by 39cm,.......just about the short piece length I gave with to make up the cable.
So?,....does anybody have thre std length for a ' 70 bay single cab ?,....just to compare with what I will be asking for on monday
Much appreciated.
Haans
Old cable removed in 2 pieces,......taken to cable maker to make up new. When I fetched,.....my mistake was to check..... big mistake,.....No! i don't need the old parts,......chuck it away !,
So ?!!! To our surprise this afternoon the cable is too short by 39cm,.......just about the short piece length I gave with to make up the cable.
So?,....does anybody have thre std length for a ' 70 bay single cab ?,....just to compare with what I will be asking for on monday
Much appreciated.
Haans
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Re: Serious help needed please. Bay throttle cable length ?
I may still have a few NOS cables floating around at Home. If you're keen, let me know and we can check tomorrow.
Post, courier or PostNet.
Post, courier or PostNet.
"Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car, and oversteer, the rear.
Hp is how fast you hit the wall, and Torque is how far you take the wall with you."
Hp is how fast you hit the wall, and Torque is how far you take the wall with you."
sled wrote:well obviously the UK is wrong.
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Re: Serious help needed please. Bay throttle cable length ?
Thanks Merlin,.....if you were closer it might have been an option. Cableman is on doorstep,......price about R130......me thinks. In PE
Had the notion that someone will shout,.....3958.45mm as an example ! ,.....then I will have a starting point.
Appreciate response
Haans
Had the notion that someone will shout,.....3958.45mm as an example ! ,.....then I will have a starting point.
Appreciate response
Haans
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Re: Serious help needed please. Bay throttle cable length ?
No worries.
I keep a list of my inventory, but as I live 1,600+km from my inventory and my family ship my parts on my behalf, it makes checking specifics a time-consuming process unfortunately.
I'm sure someone will chime in here with a cable length confirmation come Monday.
I keep a list of my inventory, but as I live 1,600+km from my inventory and my family ship my parts on my behalf, it makes checking specifics a time-consuming process unfortunately.
I'm sure someone will chime in here with a cable length confirmation come Monday.
"Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car, and oversteer, the rear.
Hp is how fast you hit the wall, and Torque is how far you take the wall with you."
Hp is how fast you hit the wall, and Torque is how far you take the wall with you."
sled wrote:well obviously the UK is wrong.
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Re: Serious help needed please. Bay throttle cable length ?
get a small roll of binding wire, feed it trough, cut to length, take it out, give it to the cableman, and voila you have a cable
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Re: Serious help needed please. Bay throttle cable length ?
Thanks gents,....will go with what I have for now and hold thumbs. When fitted,... I will write it down and notify all of the length.
Regards to all. Haans
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Re: Serious help needed please. Bay throttle cable length ?
Length 3462mm
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Re: Serious help needed please. Bay throttle cable length ?
Herman so its you that keeps cutting farmer Browns fence next to the road.
If it was not through the old farmers there would be cars broken down all over the place poor Farmers must have a hard time.
If it was not through the old farmers there would be cars broken down all over the place poor Farmers must have a hard time.
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Re: Serious help needed please. Bay throttle cable length ?
Can not be me Terry, my extension for my grinder is not that long......Terry Phillips wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:22 am Herman so its you that keeps cutting farmer Browns fence next to the road.
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Bought my 1946 Morris 10 in Bloemfontein, many years back and had it on a trailer, it bounced so much it broke all my hold down straps, so I cut some poor farmers Dooren Draad to hold it down.
Worked all the way to JHB.
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Re: Serious help needed please. Bay throttle cable length ?
Its funny how their fencing works every time, some times it stays on the car forever.
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Re: Serious help needed please. Bay throttle cable length ?
Gents,....glad this topic is creating some different opinion and diverse ways of getting to the answers.
Thanks Slak,...4362mm is good measure,....but,.....and it could be we are talking about different engines in these bays.
This is a '70 bay single cab with the std twinport engine with tins the same as of a beetle.
Getting back to the length,..had cable made up to 3435mm front of eye to tip end at the carb. In this instance I would reduce another 10mm at least. For this particular vehicle!
Hence I have to admit,....it was perhaps a "loaded" question.
However it was nice to get all the inputs and plans how to get from a to b
Just to note ,....check temp couple of minutes ago under afdak,.....38 degrees!!
Regards haans
Thanks Slak,...4362mm is good measure,....but,.....and it could be we are talking about different engines in these bays.
This is a '70 bay single cab with the std twinport engine with tins the same as of a beetle.
Getting back to the length,..had cable made up to 3435mm front of eye to tip end at the carb. In this instance I would reduce another 10mm at least. For this particular vehicle!
Hence I have to admit,....it was perhaps a "loaded" question.
However it was nice to get all the inputs and plans how to get from a to b
Just to note ,....check temp couple of minutes ago under afdak,.....38 degrees!!
Regards haans
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Re: Serious help needed please. Bay throttle cable length ?
not 4362mm
i got the length from the pakket i bought my cable in
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Re: Serious help needed please. Bay throttle cable length ?
Sorry for chiming in late.
The factory parts list says a 1970 RHD accelerator cable is 3420mm long, so that sounds about right against your experience above.
There are 3 different acc cable lengths for RHD early baywindows with type 1 engines (68-69: 3470mm, 70-71: 3420mm, 72: 3410mm).
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True story. I used some fencing wire to fix a broken acc cable at the roadside when the only tool I had with me was a swiss army knife (I usually carry a comprehensive travelling tool kit). I saw no reason to mess with it and it was on the car until I retired it years later (to my barn, awaiting restoration).Terry Phillips wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 1:37 pm Its funny how their fencing works every time, some times it stays on the car forever.
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Re: Serious help needed please. Bay throttle cable length ?
I will support the 3420mm for single cab,......BUT always keep what you remove,.....sometimes bush mechanics gett very creative to run lines and cables
Thanks all
Haans
Thanks all
Haans