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Re: FROG AYE gets a bit too frisky

To: "Hal Faulkner" <hal@katemuir.com>
Subject: Re: FROG AYE gets a bit too frisky
From: "Brad Fornal" <tequila.brad@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:12:00 -0500
Look and see if your throttle cable has come loose at the heat shield
or the top of the footwell, and hung up above the hole that it is
supposed to set into. Maybe not, but at least it is a start.

Brad

On 10/17/06, Hal Faulkner <hal@katemuir.com> wrote:
> On my way to Sam's Club tonight FROG AYE decided to act up. The idle was a
> bit fast (around 2000) so I was hoping to remember to set it down when I got
> to the parking lot.  FROG AYE had different ideas and as I was pulling away
> from a light the idle ran away to about 4500.  So what's going on?  The
> butterfly valves are closed.  If I lift the piston on either SU he will slow
> down and die.  If I cover the intake of either carb I get fuel on my hand
> and the engine slows down and dies.  Kind of interesting driving home in
> traffic with a car that doesn't run slower than 4500rpm.  Although it seemed
> that the idle was creeping faster the final, change was almost immediate.
> Where do I start looking for this?
>
> Hal
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