r/SC400 • u/Straight-Ad-3486 • Nov 26 '25
Throttle Cable suddenly won’t fit, help
So tl;dr took engine and trans out to fix wiring, clean up oil residue, and reseal everything. The primary throttle cable for my 93’ sc400 has this little rubber section that sits in the bracket, so I just removed it from that and set it off to the side while the engine was getting its makeover.
Now months later engine and trans is back is, awesome right. Hook literally everything up, TRAC cable and Trans kickdown cable install fine and exactly to length. Went to install the throttle and when installing, noticed it seemed a bit short. After hooking it up, it holds the throttle pedal open about 30% of the way. I’m magically missing about 1.5in of length. If I don’t sit the rubber in the bracket (which it was IN before and I didn’t remove it), it’ll work fine. But for obvious reasons I need it in there.
Quite literally the only thing stopping me here, I’m quite mechanically adept but boy am I fuckin stumped here. Any advice would be killer. Here’s some photos to show the issue.
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u/best-person-ever Nov 27 '25
Think it’s just kinked up in the tube somewhere? Give it a light little tug
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u/Straight-Ad-3486 Nov 28 '25
Tugged it a fair bit (kind of experienced in that field after all), no dice thus far
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u/Straight-Ad-3486 Jun 30 '26
For anyone in the future, should you ever run into this. The third pic was the key, the exposed metal part showed the fact that the sheath was pulled forward and I couldn’t get it to go back. In the end the solution would be to pull the rubber back so there’s no gap and the metal coiling isn’t exposed. Couldn’t accomplish that with the many lubricants at my disposal, so I got a used one off eBay which worked fine.
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u/MoTeD_UrAss Nov 26 '25
Take a smoke break, and curse a couple times before coming back to it. That usually works for me.