Throttle Cable Sheared.

[Tamster.]

Throttle cable snapped over the weekend, recovery man was most reluctant to fix it, instead called a low loader in for the 70 mile trip home, here's a temporary fix i did yesterday.

Remove the pedal box, 3 allen head bolts plus 2 x 13mm locknut's for clutch and gas pedal.

Strip back about 2" of the outer black cable and cut off approx 1" of the frayed inner cable, then screw on a nipple cable end, found one in the garage luckily.







The temporary fix did the trick, and got me safely down to Tvr Barnet who supplied me with a new cable and kindly allowed me to fit it on their premise's, took about 2 hour's to fit the new one including tea break's.

[Chad speed]

Had my throttle cable go at the pedal end as well on the way back from the Beaulieu TVR meet a few months ago and now carry a spare in the boot. Did you fit the later pedal stops to limit the pedal travel and help prevent a repeat? Mine had already had them fitted by a TVR dealer some years ago by a previous owner but the adjustment was way out. Also moved the pedal box at the same time - great improvement.
Chad

[cube]

Hi Ceri - how are you?
good job on the fix and replace!

[Tamster.]

cube said:

Hi Ceri - how are you?
good job on the fix and replace!

Hi Julian, hope you are well! was an exciting trip back on the low loader, saved 15 litres in fuel, cable snapped whilst exiting a car park, worth removing the pedal box and checking cable for frayed strand's, found several old cable end's in the footwell, could have broken at anytime

Heath-Robinson lash up is in the boot with all the tool's, would be a shame for it to spoil next Euro jaunt

[Tuskaa 7]

Happens to me on average once a year. Always carry a spare now and the good old AA are happy to replace at roadside if you have the part in the boot.

[yanmar]

happened to me at oulton park on a track day , managed to get it fixed thanks to RVT and a really great guy who changed it at the track , but it is not an easy fix

[icraigmy]

Chad speed said:

Had my throttle cable go at the pedal end as well on the way back from the Beaulieu TVR meet a few months ago and now carry a spare in the boot. Did you fit the later pedal stops to limit the pedal travel and help prevent a repeat? Mine had already had them fitted by a TVR dealer some years ago by a previous owner but the adjustment was way out. Also moved the pedal box at the same time - great improvement.
Chad

My throttle cable snapped at the pedal end on the way down to Beaulieu TVR meet a few months ago. Must be something in the air.

The AA did a temporary fix, but I did'nt get to beaulieu in the end.

I had a new cable fitted at Dulfords and watched them do it. It looked a very niggly job to do. My pedals were found to be offset from the original position, which may of been the cause of the cable fraying and snapping, so the Guy's at Dulfords repositioned my pedals to stop the cable from rubbing and snapping again.

I had the sides of the metal plate behind the pedals reduced (about 15mm each side) as it took the AA chap a long time to remove the plate as there was hardly any clearance between the plate and footwell.

Edited by icraigmy on Tuesday 18th August 06:59

[Chad speed]

icraigmy said:

Chad speed said:

Had my throttle cable go at the pedal end as well on the way back from the Beaulieu TVR meet a few months ago and now carry a spare in the boot. Did you fit the later pedal stops to limit the pedal travel and help prevent a repeat? Mine had already had them fitted by a TVR dealer some years ago by a previous owner but the adjustment was way out. Also moved the pedal box at the same time - great improvement.
Chad

My throttle cable snapped at the pedal end on the way down to Beaulieu TVR meet a few months ago. Must be something in the air.

The AA did a temporary fix, but I did'nt get to beaulieu in the end.

I had a new cable fitted at Dulfords and watched them do it. It looked a very niggly job to do. My pedals were found to be offset from the original position, which may of been the cause of the cable fraying and snapping, so the Guy's at Dulfords repositioned my pedals to stop the cable from rubbing and snapping again.

I had the sides of the metal plate behind the pedals reduced (about 15mm each side) as it took the AA chap a long time to remove the plate as there was hardly any clearance between the plate and footwell.

Edited by icraigmy on Tuesday 18th August 06:59

The pedal end cable arrangement is indeed less than ideal, although not as bad as my old Lotus Elite. Ensuring you have the later pedal stops fitted and set up correctly should go along way to increasing the time between failures, I recon a check every 6 months would be about right. The pedal box can move fore and aft via the pre drilled holes in the chassis plate but not sure how it can move side to side, perhaps your Tamora's body is aligned slightly differently?

Edited by Chad speed on Tuesday 18th August 07:42