Last Thursday I was leaving work at 5pm, I walked down to my car, got in, fastened my seat belt, pulled the choke out and started the car, it revved up to about 4000 rpm, and when revved it would go higher, but did not reduce. I turned the engine off and thought about what had just happened. I popped the bonnet (hood) and started to look to see what the issue was. I decided initially that I must be a stuck butterfly in the carburettor, but this was not the case. After almost an hour, and a call to Hannah to come get me I realised that the throttle cable has a spring loaded mechanism which is used to do something I imagine, what it might do I am unaware of, it has an electrical spade terminal to which no wires are connected. So I just removed the offending […]
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