Weber throttle linkage play

[gjz30075]

Does anyone with THIS kind of linkage for webers, experience this amount of play, in this piece?

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Before I tear it apart to figure out a solution, maybe this ‘wheel has been invented’ before?

[elanman999]

Greg,
I don’t recognize that linkage. Here is a pic of my old Dellorto set up which is the same as for Webers.

Hope this helps.
Cheers
John

[batfish]

Hi Greg

Ayttached is a photo of the TTR linkage which has a tophat spacer/washer between the 2 link arms. no play in the linkage.

Andy

[pharriso]

Greg, you do have a lot of slack there!

Your linkage is definitely non-original, the original Weber throttle lever looked like this:

There is a barrel with a slot that fits in the lever. The end of the throttle cable “casing” fits into the barrel & the end of the cable fits into the slot that you can see in the bracket off the air intake housing, shown center in your photo.

John I notice in your picture that the coil of the return spring is oriented toward the engine, while mine is oriented toward the air intake housing, maybe that is a Dell’Orto vs, Weber difference?

[gjz30075]

Thanks Batfish, looks to be the same linkage I have, ie, low profile type, sold by RD Ent. here in the US.
I chose to use only one cable. I bought the linkage used but it had very little play in it at the time but it
has grown. Time for teardown, I guess.

Thanks Phil. I had problems with the hairpin spring popping out with the original setup, hence the change
to this type. I think I’ll revisit the original setup.

[pharriso]

@gjz30075

Thanks Phil. I had problems with the hairpin spring popping out with the original setup, hence the change
to this type. I think I’ll revisit the original setup.

I’m having that issue! Not completely out, but it has disengaged from one side…

[gjz30075]

Hmm, interesting. Time to do some forum searching… We might be missing a trick here.

[rgh0]

I give the top end of the hairpin spring that goes through the carb lever a small bend which stops it slipping out but does not prevent its removal.

The other curved end should go through the hole in the air-box back plate bracket and not be able to come out once the top end is in the carb lever.

cheers
Rohanj