Adjusting Accelerator

If I move the swivel bolt up on the U bracket near the bAttery, will tbat provide the adjustment.
Trying to plan the job for when I get back home Friday.

On both of mine the throttle return spring is near the bottom. Having it near the top seems to make more sense. Is there an adjustment to the rod length?

@L.Lewis wrote:

On both of mine the throttle return spring is near the bottom. Having it near the top seems to make more sense.

Mine actually has 2 springs end to end so that it pulls the throttle right off when my foot comes off the accelerator to get maximum engine braking…..

Ian before adjusting anything, take off the air cleaner and take a look down the carb barrel as someone presses the accelerator just to check that the butterfly is not fully opening.

If it is, the problem is elsewhere, i.e. ignition timing or fuel supply.

So after a lot of peering down into the engine bay and having the wife push the pedal hard while figuring out the carb I worked out the issue.

The pedal itself on the bar was not in the correct position (I though it had a flat spot to fix it in place, but I think they may have worn a little).

So I got my now “mechanic” wife, Julie, to hold the carb on full throttle. I released the bolt on the pedal and bought it down, not all the way, but with a little clearance and bolted it back up tight. So adjusting and fixing the pedal in the full throttle position and not like before in the idle position.

So out on the road…. wow! Last time I slowly got up to about 85 kph with a top speed on my my flat test road of about 4 km of 90 kph. Today, it rocketed up past 90 kph and at full throttle it reached and levelled at 120 kph. I had a couple of passes and 120 kph was the limit (maybe 122 kph but the dial may be a little fuzzy). W ill need to compare to a GPS but the relative speed has increased by 30% (just as I joked). The acceleration is much better up hills now as the accelerator pump is coming into play on the carb where before it didn’t.

So next job – fix all the rattles that seem to come about at 110 kph 🙂

Oh and bleed the brakes for a final time, pretty hairy braking at that speed…. so from now on will be happy with 90 knowing it has more just in case. 😀 😀

This is the 2nd time that I have made a post to this forum only to find that the post did not “take”, I did look at the post after making it and it was visible. The reason for posting this here is that yesterday at around 11.30 am I posted to this topic the suggestion that you looked there and posted a jpg of the page out of the parts manual.

Has anyone else had posts they made not appear in a topic?

No I posted it.

So who moved the Accelerator problem post from the 1955 Traction 11B “Barn Find” Project?

Re: 1955 Traction 11B “Barn Find” Project

Postby tripyrenees » Fri Apr 24, 2015 1:31 pm

Accelerator Issue – Topic

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