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Re: Newly Acquired 900 Issues Posted by Notnoel [Email] ![]() ![]() In Reply to: Newly Acquired 900 Issues, Rob ![]() |
Generally, there is nothing that can cause the accelerator pedal to stick in any one position are be impossible to push down on accept either the pedal itself or the accelerator cable, and the chief culprit is typically the cable. I suppose it is possible the throttle is at fault, but not likley.
Open the hood and follow the cable to the throttle body. You should be able to move the butterfly valve easily by hand. That isolates the problem to either the pedal or the cable.
I had similar issues and it was caused by a failing (not failed cable). What happens is that one of the individual strands in the cable breaks and it gets coiled up and deformed as the pedal is operated over time, Eventually, coiling up to the point it binds the free travel of the cable in its sheath.
To test whether the cable is crapped out, unhook it from the throttle body and try to slide it in and out by hand from the engine compartment - it should move very freely. Do the same thing from inside the car using the pedal. I'll bet it doesn't move frictionlessly (as it should.
Typically as the cable fails, it sticks just a bit, and when it fails entirely is very random. It is extremely dangerous to drive it with a defective cable.
Unfortunately, these cables are no longer available: best place to buy one is fleabay. There's one on the UK site now: item number: 310351915540, or you can try Goldwing or East of Sweden (see site sponsers above). You'll need the right one - there are different cables for the manual (like the one listed on FleaBay, and for the automatic (has a small "s"-shaped connector at the throttle end).
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