Beautiful day so I thought I'd check some stuff on my 91. I held the throttle to the floor with a pole to check full travel. Nope, not hitting the stop. So while I had it apart I thought I'd back the full throttle stop out and see how much travel it had. Wow, goes all the way to the boss. I moved the link to the inner hole and adjusted it to run full travel now. I hope I don't brake something. Probably be the G rag first.

 

All 3 of mine are that way. You will be fine.

 

I got to looking at my 92 and it has a tamper cover over the full throttle stop. Whats up with that. Something to do with the automatics linkage?

 

did you see if youre getting full throttle travel while using the gas pedal? i had to put a spacer between the pedal and the cable to get full travel from inside of the cab.

 

No that's normal on I/C trucks, just rip it off

I usually take the screw out,

a 91 non i/c truck we had with no overdrive and 3.07 gears would do 98 mph gps verified with stock governor spring and that screw backed all the way out. awesomeness

 

and with a 5 speed a 3.54's i can go near 98 in 4th gear with the 366 spring...not much need to go over 100 in these old trucks.

 

Do I get to poke fun at you about the gas pedal?
Yes, on my 92 it did hit the stop. I'm holding off on adjustments on it until I can at least adjust the bands on the 518.

 

i usually say accelerator pedal or something but it makes me feel like a corny school teacher..

 

How about "smoke pedal"?

 

Skinny pedal, or go pedal. Smoke pedal works too.

I have a 3200 gsk installed, will it hurt anything if I take that screw out? I don't have a tach so I am worried about it.

 

There are guys running 4200 g springs, It'll be fine as long as you don't govener it in nutral.

 

Jeez that makes me nervous. I just want a little more fuel. I don't care for running at that high of RPM. Truck performs better on the low end anyway.

 

I took my high idle screw out, put the linkage on the inside hole, put spacers behind the pedal and also took the pedal off, heated it up with a torch and bent it up a little so I could get full travel. Makes a big difference. But I think when i did this it screwd up my TPS after awhile because it traveled too far and when i took my TPS apart, the plastic was all stripped out inside and you could tell how far it was traveling, but it was a simple solution, POT controller!

 

I did the same thing with my throttle, and when mine started screwing up the tps i took it off and looked at the bottom and you can see where it has a stop made in to the bracket, i just used a file and made it where it would travel what it needed to and i can still use my tps, but the pot does sound like an addition i'm going to do one day.

Dar

 

So how much before I blow it up? I have stock valve springs with 424,000 miles on them.