At 01:37 PM 8/14/00 +0100, Dean Dashwood wrote:
>The fourth one is missing from a lot of cars I've seen, including mine - it
>connects the bottom of the throttle linkage to one of several places depending
>on the model - suspension turret on early 1500s, a bracket mounted on the lower
>part of the exhaust manifold, near the downpipe, on late 1500s, and I can't
>remember where it connects to on earlier cars. The only place I have seen this
>fully described is in the Moss parts catalogue. The spring and linkage both
>seem to be made from unobtainium. I've considered finding an appropriate
>spring
>in a hardware store, and using a piece of bent coat hanger for the linkage, but
>haven't got round to it yet.
Indeed. BTW, the spring is not especially strong, and it has a relatively large
number of turns. Thus it exerts a fairly gentle (a few oz.), constant force
over a fairly long range of movement (maybe 1.5").
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
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