BuiltPoly318
Well-Known Member
I have seen a few pictures of people who used a Lokar throttle cable and I wanted to share my installation. Hopefully the last pic is self-explanatory, but I wrote up the rest anyway.
Here's the stock pedal. Notice how the lever basically sit flush with the floor.
When you install the cable as suggested, you get a lot of threaded housing on the inside of the cabin when you tighten the acorn nut, and that means that your pedal has to sit a little lower at rest than it did with the factory set up.
Of course, you could hacksaw the excess that sticks through to the cabin but if you cut too much... bummer.
What I did was this: instead of putting the acorn nut on the inside and tightening it to the inside of the firewall where the jamb nut on the outside of the firewall was, I reversed the nut and put it on the threaded housing outside of the firewall, giving me some adjustment of the threaded housing. If you look closely, you can see the acorn nut against the firewall here.
Then I used a carburetor nut (fine thread) on the inside and tightened that to the reversed nut on the outside so I could keep the threaded housing flush with the nut instead of having an extra inch that needed to be cut off. This kept the gas pedal closer to the stock height that it was before the kit was installed.
Here's the stock pedal. Notice how the lever basically sit flush with the floor.
When you install the cable as suggested, you get a lot of threaded housing on the inside of the cabin when you tighten the acorn nut, and that means that your pedal has to sit a little lower at rest than it did with the factory set up.
Of course, you could hacksaw the excess that sticks through to the cabin but if you cut too much... bummer.
What I did was this: instead of putting the acorn nut on the inside and tightening it to the inside of the firewall where the jamb nut on the outside of the firewall was, I reversed the nut and put it on the threaded housing outside of the firewall, giving me some adjustment of the threaded housing. If you look closely, you can see the acorn nut against the firewall here.
Then I used a carburetor nut (fine thread) on the inside and tightened that to the reversed nut on the outside so I could keep the threaded housing flush with the nut instead of having an extra inch that needed to be cut off. This kept the gas pedal closer to the stock height that it was before the kit was installed.
