Acceleration Cable "Gap" Question
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Acceleration Cable "Gap" Question
I could not think of a better title,sorry. Anyway, my cat had some work done on the trans before I bought it. So the acceleration cable seems to have been played with. So I want to ask you guys with a c43 what the gap is between the end of the cable to where it hits after you let go the gas?
Incase your confused heres what I mean. Picture yourself opening the hood, now you put you hand on the linkage to raise the idle or to make the car roar. when you give it gas theres a gap from there from where you pulled to give it gas. if you let the cable go it will snap back to the "sitting" or idle position. Heres my question, is there a gap between the end of the cable and the other part where the cable sits after you let go the gas?
Mine has a gap of what I would say less than an eight. the idle seems to be normal but I have no clue what the rpms are suppose to be in park,anyone know? Thers is an adjuster on that same cable to make the idle higher or lower, I just want to know if it was/is set correctly.
Thanks for any help or advice (please take a look under your hood, it will only take 1 minute of your time).
Incase your confused heres what I mean. Picture yourself opening the hood, now you put you hand on the linkage to raise the idle or to make the car roar. when you give it gas theres a gap from there from where you pulled to give it gas. if you let the cable go it will snap back to the "sitting" or idle position. Heres my question, is there a gap between the end of the cable and the other part where the cable sits after you let go the gas?
Mine has a gap of what I would say less than an eight. the idle seems to be normal but I have no clue what the rpms are suppose to be in park,anyone know? Thers is an adjuster on that same cable to make the idle higher or lower, I just want to know if it was/is set correctly.
Thanks for any help or advice (please take a look under your hood, it will only take 1 minute of your time).
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I played around with the cable and lowered it by turning it down some and what a nice difference on the performance of the trans. now I just touch the gas pedal a little and the car downshifts, press it little harder and responds fast and downshifts and of it goes! The car did not perform this well before the adjustment. Seems like the cable was off or something, if your car seems to not be downshifting right or lack power try adjusting the cable. Just mark where it currently sits incase you notice no difference. I sure did, car runs so much better and stronger, even revs better.
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No not really. I wish I had the sprint booster but I kept away from it since alot of people removed it because of it making the car to jerky. Others have said they took it off because after a while it made no difference. Does anyone actually still have the SB and do you like it?
What I have done is basicly just "timed" the computer to downshift better and at a more useable speed. Doing this with the linkage/cable. The car downshifts when you press the pedal a little to move to another lane. before I had to almost press down at the middle of the pedal. And when I do press to the middle it really downshifts with great RPMs and it just feels great and the car goes fast.
hoping to hear if anyone has the sprint booster on the c43.
What I have done is basicly just "timed" the computer to downshift better and at a more useable speed. Doing this with the linkage/cable. The car downshifts when you press the pedal a little to move to another lane. before I had to almost press down at the middle of the pedal. And when I do press to the middle it really downshifts with great RPMs and it just feels great and the car goes fast.
hoping to hear if anyone has the sprint booster on the c43.
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I had the SB for a while and got rid of it. At first it was awesome. After a while the car new something was up and would go completly limp. I would have to keep the gas floored and it would take a good 2-3 seconds before it would move, and it barely rolled even then. A simple reset fixed this but it happend a few times and I wasn't about to start a ritual of doing this. I just wear heavy shoes now
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I also had the SB on for a while and at first it was like GOD Himself could command the engine to run like it should with the utmost in speed and accerlation, then over time the ECU adjusted the SB to where it was useless and it did make the car jerky. I took mine off and sold it.
Now on the throttle cable I have mine set with no free play at all and it make no real difference in my engine operation. Where was yours set before and then after to make it better?
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Now on the throttle cable I have mine set with no free play at all and it make no real difference in my engine operation. Where was yours set before and then after to make it better?
Jeff
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I dont mean play on the cable. Mine had some play when I bought the car so I tried adjusting it to stiff things up but made no difference on anything. What I mean is that my cable had a gap where when you let off the gas the cable will sit on the black thingy (im going to have to take pitures) that keeps the cable from going to low (the rpms).
Mine had a nice size gap as mentioned in my first post. Now it only has a gap the width of HALF the size if a paper clip. I will probably see better mpg as well because the rpm is not as high as it use to be. So at stop signs and so forth there is less gas going down for no reason. Hope this makes sense.
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Now on the throttle cable I have mine set with no free play at all and it make no real difference in my engine operation. Where was yours set before and then after to make it better?
Jeff[/QUOTE]
Mine had a nice size gap as mentioned in my first post. Now it only has a gap the width of HALF the size if a paper clip. I will probably see better mpg as well because the rpm is not as high as it use to be. So at stop signs and so forth there is less gas going down for no reason. Hope this makes sense.
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Now on the throttle cable I have mine set with no free play at all and it make no real difference in my engine operation. Where was yours set before and then after to make it better?
Jeff[/QUOTE]
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Dude, sorry for being so dense, but I am just not getting a good picture of where this is at.
You are talking about the cable from the throttle to the throttle postion sensor wher you can adjust and free play right at the lever arm.
Or are you speaking of something else?
You are talking about the cable from the throttle to the throttle postion sensor wher you can adjust and free play right at the lever arm.
Or are you speaking of something else?
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i think hes talking about the cable that goes from the gas pedal to that spot on the back corner (drivers side) under the hood, where theres like a pulley where the cable is attached and you can actually move it with your hand to rev the motor as though you were using the pedal, same effect as in both cases youre turning that pulley... i think there was some slack in his cable and after he removed it the throttle became more sensitive to the pedal motions because there was no slack eating up that initial range of pedal motion...
please correct me if im way off
please correct me if im way off
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You ar right on target with the first part. The second part is not correct because its actually the reverse of what you mentioned. I thought I needed to tighten up the cable to get rid of the play. when I did this the trans shifted longer and was late in downshifting. When I loosened it up to leave the gap I mentioned in my last post the trans performed fantastic. I will get some pics saturday, would be cool if some of you guys would try the adjustment to see if your trans will perform better like mine did.
i think hes talking about the cable that goes from the gas pedal to that spot on the back corner (drivers side) under the hood, where theres like a pulley where the c
able is attached and you can actually move it with your hand to rev the motor as though you were using the pedal, same effect as in both cases youre turning that pulley... i think there was some slack in his cable and after he removed it the throttle became more sensitive to the pedal motions because there was no slack eating up that initial range of pedal motion...
please correct me if im way off
able is attached and you can actually move it with your hand to rev the motor as though you were using the pedal, same effect as in both cases youre turning that pulley... i think there was some slack in his cable and after he removed it the throttle became more sensitive to the pedal motions because there was no slack eating up that initial range of pedal motion...
please correct me if im way off
