Keevil - Sunshine Fun and a Throttle Cable

[john a]

Well - lots of "thank you"s due from me for today at Keevil.

Thanks Simon for organising.

Thanks Ed, Natasha and team.

Thanks God for the weather (I look like a beetroot now despite having spent most of the afternoon with my head in the driver's footwell).

Thanks Simon for the technical advice - born of experience of the fragility of Tuscan throttle cables.

Thanks Andy for being sensible enough to carry a spare and being kind enough to let me have it. Hope you don't need one anytime soon Email me offline and I'll settle up with you.

Thanks to the guys with the Caterhams who lent me a decent socket set.

Thanks to the lady from X1 JET who not only helped out with her small hands to get places I couldn't, but was kind enough to buy me a cold can of fat Coke just when I needed it most.

And thanks to everyone else who offered help and sympathy.

Anyway, safely home and I'll get my amateur handiwork checked over by the dealer before I go too much further. You know, if you must have a problem there can be no better place to have it than with a great bunch of Tuscaneers

See you all again soon.

[St george]

John,
I am glad it was simple and glad to help.

Terry

[21tvr]

St george said:

John, I am glad it was simple and glad to help. Terry

Yes, thank God it wasn't a question of replacing a piston ring - we could have been there for hours!!!


Seriously though, well done for getting it together with a cocktail stick, a 13mm spanner, a length of liquorice and the inside of an inner tube!

Roadside repairs ? Oh the joys of Peter Wheeler's dream cars!

[andyvdg]

No problem John! I'm glad you got home OK. I think that was the third or fourth cable to go in a few days amongst everyone there. Apart from Ed's which had come undone at the engine side (just needed to be connected up again), all the others had frayed and snapped at the pedal box end.

I looked up the invoice for (your) cable and it's described as a "mk2" hence the new bracket and design of the cable mounting at the pedal end.

I'm sure this will fix the problem once and for all

Cheers,

Andy.

[pcameron]

John,

Good to hear the cable got you home; you looked very professional fitting it like that. At least you managed to do most of the day on the track before it went.

Pete
(GTS Blue Tuscan)