THROTTLE CABLE ADJUSTMENT IN THE V8

[CHASEVDR]

Does anyone have a picture of where in the Esprit V8 engine the throttle cable is adjusted? If not, verbal directions would also be of help.

[CHASEVDR]

I do not have that adjustment feature on the pedal though, do you? It is simply a metal "eye" which the cable fits into. My issue is that the slack is too much. My biggest worry is that it will hop off the eye throttle cable eye again. I will worry about the WOT issue (a luxury when one worries about a floppy gas pedal) next time I bring it back to the mechanic.

Can I avoid climbing into the trunk to make this adjustment? If so, are there places to avoid stepping? Thanks again!

[chasevdr]

Thanks found the throttle connection point in the engine. Sitting right out in the open, can't beleive I missed it. I was looking everywhere but there. I just took a close look at it and it is a rather complex set of spring loaded machinery. Having looked it over for about 5 minutes, there appears no single point of adjustment. There is a black piece of plastic which is definetely adjustable that connects the butterfly to the rest of it, but I can tell already that it is not what is needed to take up the excess slack. Nor is this plastic bit under tension as a bumper (that appears unadjustable as it is part of the engine block) is what stops the butterfly from hyperextending. What, praytell, is the nut/stop that requires attention?

Can't help thinking that a rather simple adjustable nut on the cable itself in the footwell or the engine bay would make short order of this rather straightforward problem.

[CHASEVDR]

The stop bolt is there under the accelerator pedal where you said it was. Sorry for not responding on that, I think we were talking about two different things. Black block of rubber or plastic.

So I don't think I have lost the retaining clip you mentioned, but am going to check now that you mentioned where to find it. I know exactly where you are talking about so I just need to locate a small mirror now. Glad to hear that the adjustment does not take place in the section that is almost clock-like in its intricacies. My email is: [e-mail], if you are still willing to take those photos. Thanks again!