Accelerator cable not translating pedal movement to carb action Options

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Hope everybody is having a good weekend and thanks in advance for any thoughts or suggestions.

I have it should be an easy problem to solve that I haven’t solved – I believe the accelerator cable that came in this project is simply too long because when the gas pedal is pressed the cable flexes to a point where the physical motion from the gas pedal doesn’t translate to the same pull on the carb linkage. In other words, the cable moves around enough that it doesn’t effectively pull the carburetor linkage to increase power.

I have a replacement cable, but before I go through that I wanted to ask to see if there’s something that maybe other people encountered or that comes to mind that I’m missing.

Cable has the red arrows pointing to it.

Thanks!

[bkrantz]

If the engine compartment cable housing is in good shape, and fully seated at both ends, then even if it swings a bit the motion of the inner cable should transmit from one end to the other. Another place that movement can get lost is in the tunnel. If the rigid tubing for the throttle cable has detached from the tunnel, then some or all of the pedal motion and cable movement will be lost.