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Finished off the Lokar throttle cable install, not to bad for a change. Had to cut down the firewall fitting a bit and get a thin lock nut to wrap it up, but pretty straightforward. Key was to use a braided steel hose cutter for the sheath part of the cable, and a special cable cutter to leave a clean cut. Test fit the rod end style throttle linkage on the mount (different then stock, but similar). I'm thinking a throttle stop of sorts will be in order but do that later.
Marker hole I left before painting as to where the cable needs to be (Inside the car side)
Lokar cable assembly with the long nut and threads. The threads were cut down, and the nut replaced with low profile lock nut to allow the throttle arm to have more travel
Now to trim the sheath part, which is like braided steel brake line, so gave a hose cutter a try and work well, no stainless wires hanging around after a clean cut
Chop!
Nice clean cut.
Removed blue tape, slid some black wire sleeve over the line and threaded back into the fitting.
Need to also cut back the steel cable, if you don't have a nice pair of cable cutters come up with something better then wire cutters!
Fitting to the throttle linkage. A nice clean cut helps make this part easy.
Inside with the Lokar clevis, attached to the new arm made by Robert S. and now just a matter of setting the position. The rod ends provide nice trouble free movement of the pedal shaft. Still mentally noting how flimsy the pedal assembly is and for sure will require a pedal stop of sorts.
Marker hole I left before painting as to where the cable needs to be (Inside the car side)
Lokar cable assembly with the long nut and threads. The threads were cut down, and the nut replaced with low profile lock nut to allow the throttle arm to have more travel
Now to trim the sheath part, which is like braided steel brake line, so gave a hose cutter a try and work well, no stainless wires hanging around after a clean cut
Chop!
Nice clean cut.
Removed blue tape, slid some black wire sleeve over the line and threaded back into the fitting.
Need to also cut back the steel cable, if you don't have a nice pair of cable cutters come up with something better then wire cutters!
Fitting to the throttle linkage. A nice clean cut helps make this part easy.
Inside with the Lokar clevis, attached to the new arm made by Robert S. and now just a matter of setting the position. The rod ends provide nice trouble free movement of the pedal shaft. Still mentally noting how flimsy the pedal assembly is and for sure will require a pedal stop of sorts.
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