Throttle Cable Problems on 99 Ranger with carburated 302 motor swap. Need help Asap

Cash7612 · Mar 21, 2016

I have a 99 Ford Ranger that's had the 5.0 motor swap, and I'm having problems with the throttle cable. The motor is carburated and has a four barrel Holley on it and with the throttle cable just as tight as I can get it the carb stil won't open up not even half way with the pedal all the way to the floor. The cable in it now is a universal cable made by Mr gasket. So if anyone has done a carburated 302v8 motor swap on a truck close to the year of mine could you help me out and post some pics on where you drilled the new hole for cable in firewall and what kinda of cable you used and the length of your cable and if you kept your factory gas pedal. And help would be gladly appreciated thanks

RonD · Mar 21, 2016

You are talking about the travel available in the stock cable, which will be the same on universal cable, you need to measure that travel distance.
The travel distance is set by the gas pedal's geometry, not the cable itself or it's routing.
Unhook cable at carb end.
Pull cable all the way out, gas pedal should be all the way up now.
Now push gas pedal down to the floor, put a piece of tape on the cable marking it's "in" spot against sheath, now pull cable all the way out again and measure distance from tape to cable sheath, thats the travel distance your cable/gas pedal has.

Obviously, from your description, the carb throttle lever has a longer travel distance at it's end(top of lever) than your cable has travel distance.
But the lower you attach the cable on the throttle lever the short the travel distance will be

So mark a spot on the throttle lever and measure the distance that spot travels from closed to wide open throttle.

When you find a spot on throttle lever that has same travel as your cable then drill a hole there and add the cable attachment.

You may be using the wrong existing hole on Holly linkage for throttle cable hook up as well.
PDF here with pics of where throttle cable should attach and there are add-ons for different car makers: http://static.speedwaymotors.com/pdf/42504780C.pdf

jmcleek · Mar 21, 2016

I used a lokar cable and the factory holes on the pedal , 2 warsher on the square hole in the fire wall, one inside one outside , and the inter factory cabal if it is long enought. then the lokar cable bracket at the manafold . make sure to keep the little plastic cup and spring at the pedal. then check the traval . also make sure you don't have a bunch of carpet under the pedal. As RonD said make sure you are useing the write hole at the carb and follow his instructions as well.

jmcleek · Mar 21, 2016

Forgot ,if the threaded housing coupler is to long going though the fire wall it will need to be trimmed off ,it will limit pedal traval.

Ford78 · Mar 21, 2016

Why not just use the factory cable, that what I did on mine, summit has adapter for the cable to snap into on the throttle plate on the carb.

Ford78 · Mar 21, 2016

gsp · Mar 23, 2016

Ford78 said:
factory cable, .

Yep, what I use on 750 double pumper

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