Seized hand accelerator
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Dry cable connection to the carburettor? They don't get used often! Check the linkage all the way, liberal WD40. I move mine occasionally to ensure it's working. My MOT garage use it as a surrogate choke, which is annoying when you start and don't know it's set. Q - do you really need it? It's an optional extra which is an artefact of vehicle order. Always think it's a silly feature unless it's justified by a reason for static work. Bit pointless if there's no PTO to justify a static choke let alone an oil cooler. So, why keep it? Authenticity and vehicle provenance 
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tottot
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The person who decided that down by the passenger footwell [series three] was the place for the hand throttle must have had a weird sense of humor.
We always used to mess about with that - wind up the duty driverThe person who decided that down by the passenger footwell [series three] was the place for the hand throttle must have had a weird sense of humor.
pete1987RRC
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Yep, great cruise controll system, used mine al the time.
I've managed to get it off its seized solid, I'll get some heat on it see if that does the job!
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If not, a replacement is not over expensive ...
Got it going in the end I had to take it to pieces, it was always handy if I wanted to jump start another vehicle if there was nobody else at hand, we had a similar thing on the old Bedford TK,and on a man 8150, beats looking around for something to jam on the accelerator.
