Hand throttle cable length

[oldiron]

Anyone know the length of the factory hand throttle cable on a '72?
Mine is located right above the tank sender selector switch. The one I have is too short.
Greg

 

[1970 Palmer]

I have 40.5" on the housing, and 44" on the cable on a 1970 Bronco.

John

 

[oldiron]

Many thanks.

 

[oldiron]

Anyone have a picture of the other end of this setup? The part that attaches to the pedal assembly? I'm pretty sure I have it figured out but would like to verify. And if anyone needs to build their own cable and have it match all the other knobs in the truck without having to locate and buy this particular cable there IS a way to do it and have it look like it came that way.
Greg

 

[ared77]

 

[ared77]

 

[broncnut]

is this still available?

 

[ared77]

Sorry, I sold it.

 

[kman67]

I’m thinking of installing this hand throttle setup. Is there a way to lock it in place once you’re at the desired rpms? I want to use this for winching ops or jump starting another vehicle. If you need to stay in the vehicle to use the this hand throttle, this seems kind of pointless.
Thanks
Kyle


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[Oldtimer]

Mine stays where I set it. There seems to be enough friction between the wire and the jacket to keep it in place, plus a half century of dust & rust to help.

 

[nvrstuk]

Even brand new the hand throttle would have enough friction to keep the rpms the same. Used it hundreds of times while winching... to keep the dual batteries charged up with the 8274 and then for rpms on the Koenig PTO.

 

[DirtDonk]

But as a mechanical cruise control, not so much
Vibration and jouncing from driving down the road would cause it to retract fairly quickly.
At least it didn’t my case.

 

[nvrstuk]

Yeah, people don't understand how a constant throttle position doesn't equate to constant speed. They don't figure in uphill and the big one... DOWNHILL zoom!! lol

 

[ntsqd]

Best fuel economy that I've ever gotten out of our 6BT Cummins was to set the throttle setting on flat and level to put the engine in it's sweet spot (1750 rpm), and then HOLD that pedal setting. Let the engine and trans do whatever they were going to do to get us over I-5's Grapevine Pass.
18.9mpg over ~300 miles unlifted on metric 35's with a pop-top camper in the bed. Dang, but that was boring! And difficult, my subconscious REALLY wanted to change that throttle setting. I had to be very vigilant to not do that or the whole experiment was a loss.

I suspect that most don't realize how much their foot changes the pedal setting in the normal course of driving.