Hand throttle!!!

[Premier]

Woah... I am gonna get me one of theese

 

[SVO]

The best thing I can say is that while your boucing around and your foot keeps hitting the gas and boucing you even more, you can use the hand throttle and keep accellorating nice and smooth.

 

[SVO]

 

[glfredrick]

If you guys interested in doing the hand throttle thing will check out the boneyards, you will find that the factory cruise control snaps in place right over the factory throttle cable on older Rangers and BII's - making the addition of the cable a snap (pun intended). I did it that way on my Ranger and it works great.

 

[NOTAJP]

Derrick, looks like you've been busy while I have been touring everything except Idaho. I'm leaving again here next week so I'll catch you after the 1st of the year. I'll still have email so you can find me that way.

As far as Legaility issues, manual locking throttle (hand throttles) are not legal for use on the road. Our (USAF) 2.5 ton and 5 ton trucks (6x6) have the manual hand throttles. Just because they are there, doesn't mean they are used on the street. Really, we don't use them as crusie controls... However, they are perfectly legal to have in your vehicle.

That's a great mod and on my list, just haven't gotten there yet. Would be great for winching also to keep the RPMs up.

PS Just for arguement sake...I have an XLT with manual tranny, manual T/C, manual hubs, power windows-locks, and crusie.

 

[AlaskanJack]

This is a sweet mod. I need to direct my buddy to it.

Oh and by the way we have a 94 XL and it has manual everything doors and windows, no cruise, vinyl seats, no center console, auto tranny, manual t-case man hubs, no rear window defrost either.

 

[AlaskanJack]

Ok guys I now have a few questions regarding these.

For SVO: is that brake lever indexed? If not how does that work better than the foot pedal I would think that your hand would want to move around more than your foot.

For those of you that ran it down the shifter and over the tranny did you worry about the plastic sheathing melting at all. It can get quite hot down there.

I noticed this was asked earlier but, which gear selector did you use the 1-3 position or 1-9 postion gear selector. Would it really matter which one was used?

Now as for the pic of the cable looped when the foot pedal is pushed does the cable just bend back since the cable can't be pushed back in the covering.

I saw a pic of one on a carburated engine and they used a ball chain at the end to stop from binding the cable when the foot pedal would pull further than cable would pull. see pic

 

[nak4af]

Hey AlaskanJack!

I like the one you posted the best! It looks more practical to me. We need to try that out! After the body lift Saturday, maybe we can research it!

Looks like a post body-lift Saturday outting is in order!!

 

[RangerX]

Jack, here's what I'm using. It's a shifter lever, and you turn the little D-ring to set the drag on the cable. It has about 20 'clicks' in the range of motion. Got it at a bike shop for about $6.

 

[Dre]

that's what I've been looking for for a long time...

finally will have a chance of controlling my beast a little better and a lot easier.

 

[jayhawk137]

ive been reading this thread and i really think it sounds like an awesome idea. I dont really understand how to do it though. let me know what i get wrong.... get some gear lever type thing from a bike shop, run the cable through the firewall and attach it to.... i saw the pic but im still alittle confused. if you guys could take some more pictures of the install idd be much oblidged. thanks

adam

 

[jayhawk137]

nevermind. i get it now. stupid me. im guessing you still have to put the clutch up and down in order to change gears though... so its more for just better control?

 

[Premier]

Made for 4wheeling. Its hard to hit the gas while holding the clutch, and having a foot on the brake. Especially on a HUGE hill

 

[Dre]

imagine you're on an incline... you're going up the hill and you have to stop.... ooooooops! now you have to go up again.... it's not gonna be easy... one foot on clutch, the other on brake pedal... on order to go up you need to give it some gas before releasing the clutch so it won't die on you....

simple - you ran out of feet... this gizmo will help you control the accelerator when otherwise it is not possible.

Hope it makes sense.

 

[NOTAJP]

Also nice for winching to keep the RPMs up just a bit for more juice from the alternator.

 

[EBInterceptor]

If you got a V-brake lever (or sometimes called linear pull) it will pull further than your standard cantilever brake lever. Depending if your bike shop is a chain style or local grass roots place, they may or may not just sell a single lever or shifter for that matter. cambriabike.com is a good online spot for finding cheap and individual levers if someone is looking for some.

I wouldn't mind doing something like this to combine my bike and car enthusiasms. I kind of wish that I had a need for it though