Accelerator linkage adjustment

[edmayo]

Looks like you need to replace those bell crank bushings. It also looks like the bushing in the clutch arm is worn out.

[HarryD]

Looks like you need to replace those bell crank bushings. It also looks like the bushing in the clutch arm is worn out.

Hi Ed. I have a quick question, in my 1973, I believe there are 2 throttle rod bushings. Is one accessed under the shifter and the other at the rear shift coupler access panel? Thanks!

[frederik]

If you mean the white plastic bushes in the tunnel, there are three. One under the shifter, one under the handbrake, and one under the rear panel -- that's the only one that's easy to access.

[HarryD]

If you mean the white plastic bushes in the tunnel, there are three. One under the shifter, one under the handbrake, and one under the rear panel -- that's the only one that's easy to access.

Per the PET, there are only 2. Hence my question to Ed.

[edmayo]

I don't know why you're missing the third, but trust me, it's there.

[HarryD]

I don't know why you're missing the third, but trust me, it's there.

Ed,

I know second guessing you is fraught but... this is what the PET for the 1970-73 vars shows. It certainly confuses me.

[Chuck Miller]

Harry,

Sometimes the PET just doesn't correspond to date specific information.... or sometimes the correct information

Here out of my '73 Parts manual printed 9/72

Hope this helps

[HarryD]

Chuck:

Thanks. For some reason this does not surprise me. I just want to be sure.

[dummkopf]

Thank you Mr. Miller. Something I need to check on!!!

[SFE]

Hi All,

I found out my trans bell crank was for 915 gearbox so I decided to install the correct 901 one for my car as well as the main pull rod.

Here is the 915 bell crank :



And here are the right parts :





I was a little bit short while connecting all together, so I decided to order also the extension rod which is linked to the rubber connecting piece, and I was right :



Now all angles on the 3 bell cranks are good (as described by Ed) and I have full throttle movement.



Since then I'm trying to adjust the return to idle position when I release very slowly the accelerator pedal, time to time it doesn't go fully to that idle stop position and it does not engage the microswitch in the engine compartment.
It looks like if the pedal was sticky within the last inch of its course.
All my bell crank bushings and the 3 in the tunnel are new and there was no problem before I did that job...