[DeTomaso] Good news from the Swedish crash

[thomas]

Something similar happened to
me while I did my military service. I was driving an old Volvo terrain truck when suddenly the throttle pedal stuck to the floor.

Luckily it didn't make much difference in speed, and I could use the engine kill control on the dashboard to adjust the speed, and finally kill the engine. Turned out the linkage was misadjusted and it could flip over and lock at full throttle on bumpy roads, when the engine was bouncing around.

No drama involved.

Thomas

19 jul 2012 kl. 21:37 skrev "Mikael" <mikael_hass at mail.tele.dk>:

> " Anyone else have a throttle stick wide open?  " I think maybe I can do one
> better. I had the engine pull the accelerator pedal to the floor and keep it
> firmly there. It was a 68 Camaro smallblock automatic. Took me a while to
> find out why, but when I accelerated semi hard, throttle 1/2-2/3 down,
> suddenly the accelerator would be pulled all the way down. Happened 3 times
> before I found out why, once in heavy traffic. I got out of trouble by
> jamming the brakes and tuning the key, and later found that if I switched to
> neutral, the throttle popped back up.
> 
> The reason? A faulty left engine mount, so when accelerating the engine
> raised itself on the left side. And my throttle was an arm/rod (original)
> system, not cable, and it was adjusted so that there was very little gap
> between that arm and the head/valve cover. So when the engine raised itself
> on the left, it hit the arm, the arm was pushed backwards, thereby opening
> the throttle plates further etc.
> 
> (When I later bought another Camaro, totally original, it had a bracket and
> wire installed, the wire was from the front left of the engine to the upper
> a-arm. This would control an engine with a faulty left engine mount. It
> looked like a GM/Dealer addition, so maybe this has happened to many
> owners?)
> 
> Mikael
> 
> 
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