[Healeys] Throttle? linkage

[Rick Swain]

Is a lever rotating slightly on its shaft and hanging up in that position
until you push it back? Make sure the clamp bolts are tight.
Rick'59 BN4

> My BN6 with HD6's idles just fine at around 800 rpm and the mixture is
> correct as far as I can determine. Problem is that when I accelerate the
> linkage sticks coming down at about 2,000 rpm and stays there. When in the
> cockpit, trying to raise the pedal with my foot does nothing -- it is
> already up as far as it will go.
>
> Under the bonnet, when I goose the linkage by moving the relay shaft to
> carbs, it comes right down where it should at 800 even running past 2,000
> rpm. If I hold this shaft open above 2,000 rpms, it will only come back
down
> to 2,000 rpm and I have to nudge the shaft to bring it back to 800.
>
> What am I missing???
>
> John Sims, BN6
> Aberdeen, NJ


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