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07-05-2018, 05:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-05-2018, 05:52 PM by Stuart Giles.)
The lever at the bottom of your steering column should have a rod connected to another lever which is fitted on the cross shaft. There is a type of dog clutch arrangement with this lever which allows you to increase the throttle opening with the pedal and come back to the previous hand throttle setting.
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My RN has a small taper pin holding the "dog clutch" onto the throttle cross shaft. Has the lever at the bottom of the steering column slipped round a bit? It is true that the lever on the cross shaft is free to rotate and then come up hard against the "dog clutch". Either the pin has dropped out or the lever at the bottom of the column has slipped.
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Kevin, not sure if it helps but on my RN I spent to long trying to get the gas leaver to work only to find the problem on mine is the leaver at the steering wheel end has become detached from the tube. Easy fix I hear you all say, but I don’t have sun roof to with draw the tube, tying to decide if I can fix when the tube is half out I presume it is a solder joint?
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Sounds like the brass lever at the bottom of the control tube has slipped, when this happens the lever on the cross shaft is not moved up far enough to engage with the dog on the accelerator pedal. Set the control arm in the steering wheel to shut, loosen the clamping bolt on the brass lever at the borrow of the control tube and lift it until the cross shaft arm almost engages with the accelerator, tighten clamp bolt and all should be well again.
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It is a soft solder joint, I would suggest that is how you re-fix the lever, its what I do when replacing damaged tubes.
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