Attention: TDR Forum Junkies I had an incident last month where the linkage at the ball socket dropped off the back if the injector pump quadrant. LOOOOse ball socket, it left me stranded until I riged up a string to the injector pump quadrant, around the intake plenum under the hood and back to the drivers window, (hand throttle).
I guess its not to bad for a 10yr old Dog, but one that had me thinking there must be something better than the DC stuff.
After as search on the net I cam across midwestcontrols.com they have an awesome website for ball joints turnbuckles etc.
The 1st Pic: the quadrant ready to go into the truck pre assembeled.
Sorry for the clarity of these pic’s as my regular camera is on recall by Canon (major problem with the CCD).
Note the pics are out of sequence????
The 2nd pic this shows the throttle lever taken from the side of the injector pump. The arrow shows where I am starting to drill out the stud that held the ball socket.
I drilled this with a pilot hole first then a ¼” drill to finish, this is the original size of the hole. I used a ¼” x 1-1/4”long bolt at this end with the head of the bolt on this side to clear the TPS.
The 3rd pic is the new & the old, the new one is much beefier and is held on with ¼” bolts.
Yep the old DC just cant stand up to my right foot!!!
& #4 is the drawing I made of the parts & parts List for this fix.
Note item 2 will have to be bent to the correct shape. The offset is about 1-1/4”
It works like a charm no more slop and while it was off the truck I slotted the holes for the TPS and cranked it over aprox’ 10 deg , now I have my cruise back + is seems to shift better between 3-4. It is a lot easier to adjust and tighten when it’s off the truck. I was lucky everything went back together all pre-assembled with a little manipulation of the radiator hose, I took every thing out piece by piece.
Well the pics are in but not where i wanted them.
CC.
I guess its not to bad for a 10yr old Dog, but one that had me thinking there must be something better than the DC stuff.
After as search on the net I cam across midwestcontrols.com they have an awesome website for ball joints turnbuckles etc.
The 1st Pic: the quadrant ready to go into the truck pre assembeled.
Sorry for the clarity of these pic’s as my regular camera is on recall by Canon (major problem with the CCD).
Note the pics are out of sequence????
The 2nd pic this shows the throttle lever taken from the side of the injector pump. The arrow shows where I am starting to drill out the stud that held the ball socket.
I drilled this with a pilot hole first then a ¼” drill to finish, this is the original size of the hole. I used a ¼” x 1-1/4”long bolt at this end with the head of the bolt on this side to clear the TPS.
The 3rd pic is the new & the old, the new one is much beefier and is held on with ¼” bolts.
Yep the old DC just cant stand up to my right foot!!!
& #4 is the drawing I made of the parts & parts List for this fix.
Note item 2 will have to be bent to the correct shape. The offset is about 1-1/4”
It works like a charm no more slop and while it was off the truck I slotted the holes for the TPS and cranked it over aprox’ 10 deg , now I have my cruise back + is seems to shift better between 3-4. It is a lot easier to adjust and tighten when it’s off the truck. I was lucky everything went back together all pre-assembled with a little manipulation of the radiator hose, I took every thing out piece by piece.
Well the pics are in but not where i wanted them.
CC.
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