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Kinja'd!!! "Denver Is Stuck In The 90s" (denver80222)
02/11/2015 at 14:00 • Filed to: Zip ties

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I have noticed my throttle response has been lacking lately and my accelerator pedal has been a bit limp since I bought the truck. Last Night I came across a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! depicting a proposed fix for slack in the throttle cable on Ford Rangers. So I Decided to give it a shot last night.

Here is a Before video:

And Here is an after video:

Oh my god, the difference is night and day! I have so much more pedal feel and so much more throttle response. I'm using less of my throttle to get up to speed and Im hitting speeds at better rev ranges. I think I should expect less clutch wear and better fuel economy. I will report back at my next fill up in those 2 regards. From start to finish, this fix took about 5 minutes.


DISCUSSION (8)


Kinja'd!!! Jayhawk Jake > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
02/11/2015 at 14:44

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I'm using less of my throttle to get up to speed and Im hitting speeds at better rev ranges. I think I should expect less clutch wear and better fuel economy

What? All you did was take slack out of your pedal. It doesn't change how much throttle it takes to move the car. It shouldn't have any affect on anything besides how the pedal feels.


Kinja'd!!! Übel > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
02/11/2015 at 15:34

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Im hitting speeds at better rev ranges. I think I should expect less clutch wear and better fuel economy.

Slow down there cowboy, you put a zip tie on your pedal, you didn't do a transmission swap. Think about it systematically, what does the mod actually do? It compresses the trottle a bit, so all you're really doing is preloading the pedal a bit, meaning it takes less right foot movement to hit the same levels of throttle as before the zip tie. Clutch wear should be unchanged, and I'd actually expect it to harm fuel economy at first, since the same foot movement post-mod will open the throttle further than you're used to. Finally, if adding a preload on your throttle causes the speed-RPM relationship to change in any given gear (aka changes the gear ratio), something is seriously wrong with your car, man.


Kinja'd!!! Captain of the Enterprise > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
02/11/2015 at 16:48

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Kinja'd!!! Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > Übel
02/11/2015 at 17:34

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The thing is I just brought it back to the way it should be, my throttle cable had slack in it due to wear. I just basically avoided needing a cable replacement with this. Before I did this, I was depressing the pedal about half an inch before actually engaging the throttle. So ya, it probably would at first give worse MPG, but it will definitely create less clutch wear do to the more efficient throttle use. At low speeds the truck used to vibrate due to the throttle and the clutch not matching up. Now it doesnt do that and is actually manageable to drive at low speeds


Kinja'd!!! Übel > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
02/11/2015 at 17:55

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less clutch wear do to the more efficient throttle use. At low speeds the truck used to vibrate due to the throttle and the clutch not matching up.

I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say in these bits. The throttle and the clutch are not really linked at all, except via the engine. The clutch only really wears when it's slipping (when the pedal is partially depressed). I don't know what you mean by "throttle and clutch not matching up". Difference in engine speed vs. clutch speed?


Kinja'd!!! Jayhawk Jake > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
02/11/2015 at 18:03

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Those last two sentences make no sense. Throttle and clutch don't match up, throttle has nothing to do with clutch. The vibration is just the engine idling. If anything you overdid the preload and are giving the engine a little bit of throttle which is reducing the noticeable vibrations because the engine is idling at a slightly higher RPM. Which wouldn't be ideal, because you'd burn a little more fuel at idle


Kinja'd!!! Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > Übel
02/11/2015 at 18:41

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Difference in engine speed vs. clutch speed?

yeah that. It was very difficult to modulate throttle at low speeds before I did this


Kinja'd!!! JGrabowMSt > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s
02/11/2015 at 19:24

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Silly cable throttle....When I feel like I have some "dead pedal," I turn the key to "On" (not start), slowly push the gas pedal all the way down, and slowly let it back up. Turn the key to off, then wait about 5 seconds, then turn the car back on.

And voila! TPS reset.