Lokar throttle cable

[green55]

My gas pedal is heavy as hell. Always has been, but seems to be getting worse and sticking. Been looking around on here and lokar cables seem to help a lot of times.

Trying to figure out which is correct for a 89 Jimmy TBI 350 with a stock pedal. Anyone know? And do I have to switch out the bracket or anything? Seems like everything on the lokar is circular but everything on the stock cable is square/rectangular

 

[K85 Octane]

Just another view to this thread with no answer... Mine was a cut to size custom piece for my EFI.

 

[Gentleman Jimmy]

Have you taken apart your pedal assembly to clean and re grease? Pull the cable off the tbi and shoot some lube down the cable? Check the routing in the engine bay?
sorry I don’t know lokar part number, but would assume you can use the lokar bracket mounted to the intake and you’ll have to get creative with the rectangle firewall grommet.
i have a lokar cable in my C10 (has a tpi) and it works well.

 

[Kain]

mine used to do this, it was the cable cutting into itself and after the 3rd cable i bought a lokar and cut to fit no issues since

 

[green55]

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Have you taken apart your pedal assembly to clean and re grease? Pull the cable off the tbi and shoot some lube down the cable? Check the routing in the engine bay?
sorry I don’t know lokar part number, but would assume you can use the lokar bracket mounted to the intake and you’ll have to get creative with the rectangle firewall grommet.
i have a lokar cable in my C10 (has a tpi) and it works well.

I’ve kinda half asses most of your suggestions haha. I cleaned and lubed the pedal assembly as best I could while still attached, I’ll try taking it off though and doing a more thorough job.

I did try lubing the cable itself to no avail. Routing looks good and what I understand to be stock based on other threads. Does a kinda loop over another component before going through the firewall.

my concern about using the lokar bracket is I’m not planning on replacing the other cable (TV?) that shares the factory bracket. So I’d potentially have issues there.

 

[green55]

mine used to do this, it was the cable cutting into itself and after the 3rd cable i bought a lokar and cut to fit no issues since

Do you remember if you could use your stock bracket/pedal? I may just order one and figure it out from there, but they aren’t cheap (for a cable) so I thought I’d check if anyone had details.

 

[Kain]

Yes, I took the plastic piece that hooks to the stock pedal and used it, you have to cut it off stock pedal but you dont need stock one any more
also you need 2 big washers so that when it goes though the firewall it doesnt give you grief .
one outside one inside to accommodate square hole round cable situation

 

[Kain]

Also before you run the cable but have the two pieces bolted to the firewall take a wrench and put on it and Bend it so the cable thing points up and not down the cable will saw into the housing at extreme angle and stop the peddle from working

 

[frankin5]

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[frankin5]

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