Don, Go to a motorcycle shop and pick up a cable luber. They slip over the cable and seal the end of the housing, you stick the nozzle of a can of spray lube into it, and spray away. One of these should force lube most of the way through the cable housing. They cost about $10, and work well on bicycle cables as well. Don ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> Date: Friday, May 14, 2010 0:40 am Subject: Lube the accelerator cable on a vanagon? > Maybe for Scott... > > Is there some way to make the accelerator cable move the vehicle's > throttle more smoothly? Mine seems a little 'sticky'. I've > lubed the > stuff on the engine and the pedal in the cab without much > improvment. This > is an 84 manual tranny van. When I go 'off-idle' without using > any clutch, > the van 'surges' as the throttle is opened. I push on the > pedal...harder..harder and all of a sudden, it moves...more than I > intend,causing a lurch ahead by the van. Now under partial > throttle, everything > seems pretty normal..but when I am idling along and want to > increase my > speed slightly...like when in a line following a pilot car or > something...Ican't accelerate smoothly without clutching.. > How do I fix a sticky cable..which I think I am feeling.. > Don Hanson > |
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