Removing-refitting accelerator cable

REMOVING-REFITTING ACCELERATOR CABLE

1. Working from inside the vehicle, disconnect the control cable from the anchorage on the accelerator pedal.
2. In the engine compartment, remove the resonator complete with air inlet hose disconnecting the band shown from the butterfly casing and undo the fixing bolts. Also disconnect the oil vapour recovery pipe from the lower part of the resonator.
3. Rotate the butterfly valve control lever and disconnect the acclerator cable; then separate the cable from the support (1). Remove the flexible buffer (2) from the anchorage opening in the rear wall of the engine compartment and extract the complete accelerator cable.

When refitting, adjust the accelerator cable as described in the paragraph which follows.

ADJUSTING ACCELERATOR CABLE

4. The accelerator cable is adjusted by moving the clip (1) in the different bush (2) splines.

Make sure that with the accelerator pedal fully depressed the butterfly valve is completely open.