[DeTomaso] Throttle cable length problem

[B Hower]

I had a cable break while leaving a car show ... pulled cable from housing at carb end .. tied cable to hold throttle at speed and drove it home .... cut a length of welding wire to mickey mouse cable ... drove 50 miles one way to cruse and back. I ran that for a lone time. Then got some SS braided cable, made a coupling with set screws to splice new to piece of old cable at pedal end. That has been there for may years now ... 

    On Friday, May 8, 2020, 7:55:46 PM CDT, Larry Finch via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:  
 
 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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   I had a cable break while leaving a car show ... pulled cable from
   housing at carb end .. tied cable to hold throttle at speed and drove
   it home .... cut a length of welding wire to mickey mouse cable ...
   drove 50 miles one way to cruse and back. I ran that for a lone time.
   Then got some SS braided cable, made a coupling with set screws to
   splice new to piece of old cable at pedal end. That has been there for
   may years now ...

   On Friday, May 8, 2020, 7:55:46 PM CDT, Larry Finch via DeTomaso
   <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
   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 cableas
   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 shouldnat 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 didnat just revive and
   reinstall the old cable, and carry the new vendor cable unopened in
   itas plastic bag, only to discover in a time of need, far from home,
   that it was a piece of junk that wouldnat fit.
   Maybe if all of us would raise enough of a stink when they sell us
   parts that donat fit, the vendors might actually get their act together
   and stop foisting this crap on us.
   Ma Dickers!
   Larry
   Sent from me using a magic, handheld electronic gizmo.
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