[DeTomaso] Throttle cable length problem

Fri May 8 22:57:36 EDT 2020

Bud,

Thanks for your last post as it gave me a little chuckle.

On the surface your idea is totally logical, but when you insert a Pantera vendor into the equation things tend to get difficult.

At least one vendor is unable/unwilling to provide an accurate reproduction and instead builds one with dimensions that simply will not work.  I have serious doubts that a request for their product’s construction dimensions would provide anything of value.

Obviously they do not understand the concept of measure twice, cut once.

Larry 

Sent from me using a magic, handheld electronic gizmo. 

> On May 8, 2020, at 7:37 PM, B Hower <b.hower3400 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> If you knew/know length needed, could you not get vendor to state dimensions of his product prior to placing an order. If we had dimensions listed some where, we could state to vendor what we had to have.
> 
> Bud #3400 ( Drive it like there is no tomorrow -- for there may not be ! )
> 
> 
> On Friday, May 8, 2020, 9:22:13 PM CDT, Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>   Larry,
> 
>   Perhaps in similar fashion to the parts interchange spreadsheet, we
>   should start a spreadsheet of vendor parts that don't fit? If other
>   owners have experienced similar issues and no one is prepared to call
>   out the vendor publicly on a specific part to forewarn other owners,
>   then in my opinion that's just as much a part of the problem,
>   collectively we are a much stronger voice.
> 
>   Respectfully,
> 
>   Julian
>     __________________________________________________________________
> 
>   From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com> on behalf of
>   Larry Finch via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
>   Sent: Friday, May 8, 2020 5:55 PM
>   To: Email List Address For Posting <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
>   Subject: [DeTomaso] Throttle cable length problem
> 
>   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
>   Sent from me using a magic, handheld electronic gizmo.
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   Bud,

   Thanks for your last post as it gave me a little chuckle.
   On the surface your idea is totally logical, but when you insert a
   Pantera vendor into the equation things tend to get difficult.

   At least one vendor is unable/unwilling to provide an accurate
   reproduction and instead builds one with dimensions that simply will
   not work.  I have serious doubts that a request for their product's
   construction dimensions would provide anything of value.
   Obviously they do not understand the concept of measure twice, cut
   once.
   Larry

   Sent from me using a magic, handheld electronic gizmo.
   On May 8, 2020, at 7:37 PM, B Hower <[1]b.hower3400 at yahoo.com> wrote:

   If you knew/know length needed, could you not get vendor to state
   dimensions of his product prior to placing an order. If we had
   dimensions listed some where, we could state to vendor what we had to
   have.
   Bud #3400 ( Drive it like there is no tomorrow -- for there may not be
   ! )
   On Friday, May 8, 2020, 9:22:13 PM CDT, Julian Kift
   <[2]julian_kift at hotmail.com> wrote:
     Larry,
     Perhaps in similar fashion to the parts interchange spreadsheet, we
     should start a spreadsheet of vendor parts that don't fit? If other
     owners have experienced similar issues and no one is prepared to call
     out the vendor publicly on a specific part to forewarn other owners,
     then in my opinion that's just as much a part of the problem,
     collectively we are a much stronger voice.
     Respectfully,
     Julian
       __________________________________________________________________
     From: DeTomaso <[3]detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com> on
   behalf of
     Larry Finch via DeTomaso <[4]detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
     Sent: Friday, May 8, 2020 5:55 PM
     To: Email List Address For Posting
   <[5]detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
     Subject: [DeTomaso] Throttle cable length problem
     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
     Sent from me using a magic, handheld electronic gizmo.
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