accelerator cable

[eyal76]

hey guys, so i've been looking at the fuel system on the car and. when i. push. the gas down. all. the way down it doesn't go back up.. thankfully i discovered this while the car was turned off it appears. accelerator cable has taken too. much slack any ideas on. how to fix. it i ideally. don't want to have to install a new cable is fixing it. a. option. without buying a. new cable ?

[18Fiatsandcounting]

It's usually fairly easy to fix, but the first step is to figure out what is sticking. It could be the gas pedal itself, or the cable, or the connection points for the cable, or the carburetor.

Try removing the linkage going to the carburetor and test your gas pedal then. Does it still stick? Does the throttle linkage on the carburetor (without the linkage connected) move smoothly through its rotation? The answers might tell us where the problem is.

Cables can go bad, but often they simply need to be relubricated.

-Bryan

[eyal76]

thanks for your response, the pedal linkage has no slack so it sinks to the bottom and at the top of the pedal linkage connects to the cable but the piece of plastic that keeps the cable taught is behind the linkage