The Squeak...

[Mark_88]

Ever since I've been driving the Ranger (August last year) I've been hearing an annoying squeak from the gas pedal...I finally got around to looking at it last week and greased everything I could see...to no avail.

Yesterday I took the pedal apart and checked it again. It's kind of hard to tell where a noise is coming from when you've got your arms up in front of the seat so you can look up under and work under the dash...and in that position they interfere with sound...

So, anyway, after taking it apart and regreasing everything, and putting it all back together, the squeak was just as bad...so...I checked it from the front of the truck in the engine bay and something dawned on me...

On the pedal there are actually two places for the throttle cable connection...I happened to be using the one on the left (facing the pedal) and had pushed the cable through an appropriate hole...turns out the squeaking was the cable was binding against something because it isn't an exactly straight path to the pedal...

Took it apart, pulled the cable out through the firewall and sprayed some lubricant down the tube (silicone lubricant, not WD-40), refed the line through the second hole and connected the pedal...

No more squeak...

Haaaaaaaaaa.....

Just thought I'd share a minor triumph...

 

[Mark_88]

The cable finally broke a while ago and I replaced it with a bicycle cable that has been holding up so far...but I had to zip tie it already so I know it is stretching...I know I posted about this mod somewhere but I couldn't find it...but I rerouted the cable to give it a more direct line...was going to post pics but will have to wait a bit longer...


Aside from that...I cut down my oil consumption quite a bit by putting on a new cork valve cover gasket...but I want to put one of the rubber ones on because even the cork is leaking...from the front now and not the back...

Oh...and I've tried turning down the gas a bit because I know it's still getting too much fuel...it smells really much like leaking gas at the back end...

Anyone know of a way, short of emission tests, to see if the carb is getting the right amount of fuel?

I've heard that if you run it too lean it can/will burn valves and I want to keep it as healthy as possible...since turning down the fuel mixture screw I've noticed that it cruises much better...I'm doing 90 Km/hr with the same effort that it was taking to do 80...pedal wise...and that is factoring in the recent cable change and mod...

Still haven't gotten a decent amount of miles to recalculate the actual mileage yet...but working on it...