mattman2730

Okay so the throttle cable is too long so everyone is putting spacers of some sort to take up the slack, I did too. But today I was bored out of my mind and looking at the manual and something came to my attention that I never thought about.

When you have trouble starting the car, you are supposed to "press the accelerator to the floor...this will alow the engine to crank with the fuel shut off in case the engine is flooded with fuel." To me that means that at a certain point, the engine will not be getting any MORE fuel. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. But does that mean that by lifting our gas petal by using spacers, etc, that instead of this happening when the gas is floored, it will happen slightly above the floor? Meaning we gain nothing other than a more comfortable gas petal height?

I ask this because at first I felt like I could give it more gas, basically go a tad bit faster. But when I think about it, I was probably just imagining it because of the petal height.

jmac72187

The pedal mod doesn't actual allow you to reach full throttle. It is strictly for comfort. I had the spacer in mine, but i crushed it. I then went to a metal spacer, but I heard that using the spacers could possibly snap the end off of the cable, so I am just learning to love with the lower pedal.

Chopper

I suspect the "pedal to the floor" engine clearing procedure is read from the TPS and not a sensor attached to the accelerator.

jmac72187

I think he meant that now it is easier to go past the full throttle into that fuel shut off thing. because the pedal has more capability of traveling past ful throttle.

cliffyk

Alla spacer does is take up slack in the cable,don't ascribe some sort of mystic series of inter-related effects to it--it just repositions the accelerator, nothing more nothing less. It was the first "mod" I did to my '03 GT, before I ever read about it anywhere--the pedal was at the classic "American sedan"heightit and I didn't like it. I was pleased that Ford made the cable suffciently long that I could fix it.[/align][/align]Adding a spacer will not allow you to "go past full throttle" (there's a hard stop on the throttle body that prevents that), it has no effect on flooded condition starting, and you'd have to press the accelerator very hard to break the cable--all it does is reposition the pedal...[/align]

mattman2730

okay, thanks, so you dont get any benefit as far as acceleration, I guess I was imagining. Thanks for the posts, I was just really interested after reading that