Don Day has a problem with his throttle linkage. He said he installed the
throttle shaft into the fire wall and then into the throttle bracket that
mounts to the intake manifold. His problem was the holes don't line up with
holes in the intake manifold. They were off by 3/16". After contacting him
and clarifying his problem, I found that the throttle linkages on our BJ8s
are different. On his car, BJ8L42122, the throttle shaft is retained in the
nylon bracket/bearing by two circlips to control fore and aft movement.
This is preventing him from matching the holes in the nylon bracket and/or
the bracket bolted to the manifold.
My BJ8, HBJ8L39031, has only one circlip which is on the end of the shaft
although there are two grooves in the shaft. On the other side of the nylon
bracket is a spacer about an inch long that is between the nylon bracket and
the lever that connects the control rod to the carburetors thus preventing
fore and aft movement. I suggested that replacing the rearward circlip with
an appropriate length spacer would give him the adjustment that he needed to
move the nylon bracket back 3/16".
Moss shows the two circlips in their catalog - no spacer. Do I have an an
odd ball installation or was there a change in design during production?
Does anyone else have the spacer on their BJ8?
(The Other) Len
Vacaville, CA, USA
1967 AH 3000 MkIII, HBJ8L39031
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