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percy · Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 11 Location: London, UK

Referring to this thread:
http://www.924board.org/viewtopic.php?t=18574&highlight=throttle+cable

I will tell you what I found. I wasn't lucky enough to detect a failing cable - mine just snapped - fortunately just as I was pulling away from front of my house rather than at 3am in the middle of nowhere.

AFN in W London quoted £280+ for a new one which was de-listed anyway.
A trawl of UK breakers revealed just one for a mere £25.

I found a local garage who agreed to collect the car (my usual Porsche guy is 54 miles away) and he stripped everything down only to find that the replacement cable was fraying inside the rubber boot at the transmission end, and he refused to fit it.

If you've never seen one this is one L-O-N-G cable.

He had to cart the car back home again as he needed the space.

T'internet revealed a firm in S Wales who make up new cables so I sent him the duff one with an instruction to remake a new inner cable in the old outer pieces.
This he did for about £40 and posted it back.

Got the car trailered back to the garage and the job was completed. That cost a fortune as several other things needed sorting for the annual MoT.
I had a feeling the car would get the certificate as he was very keen never to see the car again!

Now the + side of this is the transformation in the power delivery. I was used to (after 8 years) the sluggish take-off from 0 mph, never holding 1st gear and just knowing where the ratios would be selected.

But now - all the gear change points have changed, she takes off like a scalded cat, (well compared with before!) holds 1st for longer than is good for the aged lump and is a pleasure to drive again.

Nowhere near as cheap to fix as the other thread's authors car but worth it to keep the car on the road.

924RACR · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:39 pm Post subject:

Cheers - too bad you didn't catch it prior!

Did you adjust the kickdown then? I think mine needs adjustment - has kinda the slow response you describe. I have to read the procedure yet, and get around to it...
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percy · Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 11 Location: London, UK

"Did you adjust the kickdown then?"

Well, I didn't but maybe the garage did something.
Maybe its just that the cable operation is now super smooth.
It took me a long time to get the tickover right however.

924RACR · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:35 am Post subject:

I'm guessing the garage did it - looks like it's supposed to be done on installing a new cable. I'll have to go through it... it's a many-paged procedure in the book...

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Ozzie · Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:45 am Post subject:

You'll need a protractor.
Once adjusted you'll notice the difference when you want it to drop a gear.
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924RACR · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:43 pm Post subject:

Finally did it yesterday; typical, reading the book made it seem a lot harder than it was. Still, it did need a little adjustment, the accel pedal rod was bent (making it difficult to get to kickdown without a lot of pressure, was contacting the carpet). It does seem a little more lively now, though not night and day - wasn't far off before, IMO.
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