[DeTomaso] Throttle cable length problem

[Larry Finch]

Mike,

Thanks for your offer to provide dimensions. However, I do have my old cable and have been reviving it with some long needed cleaning and it looks like it will serve. I am also documenting all of the cable’s dimensions. I was buying a new cable, just because it was new, and was going to keep my old as a traveling spare. 

As you noted, the housing can be lengthened to any length, but the cable needs to reflect the same additional length. What happened with this assembly is the cable length stayed the same despite the lengthening of the housing. 

No Worky. 

I received a private email from another owner that had similar problems, and he needed to resort to modifications similar to what you related. 

I know we all like to honor our vendors and thank them for their service. But on a part like this, thousands of which were manufactured by Ford and successfully installed in thousands of cars, there is NO REASON why replacements shouldn’t likewise be universally correct and proper.

The vendor did offer to accept a return and give me appropriate store credit, which I am fine with.

Come Monday I will contact other vendors and likely wind up buying two or three more prospects. Perhaps one of our vendors actually knows how to correctly reproduce this part.  

Perhaps I should count my blessings that I didn’t just revive and reinstall the old cable, and carry the new vendor cable unopened in it’s plastic bag, only to discover in a time of need, far from home, that it was a piece of junk that wouldn’t fit. 

Maybe if all of us would raise enough of a stink when they sell us parts that don’t fit, the vendors might actually get their act together and stop foisting this crap on us. 

Ma Dickers!

Larry




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