Sounds like wire bundle chafing, under the dash.
If it's white-red to throttle or choke cable, it's a dead short.
- Bob Mann, '69 2000 Solex
Alex Avery wrote:
>
> Ok, this may be the weirdest electrical problem I've run across.
>
> I'm a Z guy, but my pops has a '69 2000. Yesterday evening, he was out
> "enjoying the ride" when his throttle pedal started getting "soft" and the
> engine died down to idle.
>
> He pulled over onto the grass by the side of the road and when he got out,
> he noticed smoke emerging from around the sides of the hood. He popped the
> hood and saw what he thought were "wires" on fire! He put them out with
> his hankerchief and walked home and gave me a call. I drove over to tow
> the little bulldog (that's what I call it) home.
>
> When I looked at the "wires" he told me about, I realized they weren't
> wires at all--they were his throttle cable and one of the choke cables.
> The main throttle cable's plastic sheathing melted right off along the
> whole length of the metal cable (from the linkage on the intake back to the
> pivot arm on the firewall). I looks like the throttle cable is a
> replacement, as there is no metal sheathing on this cable as there is on
> the choke cables.
>
> On the choke cable, it's metal with a plastic cover over that. The plastic
> has boiled along the whole length of cable and this cable is now bonded to
> the other non-melted choke cable.
>
> So, what is happening? My hunch is that there is a huge short running
> through these cables and this is causing them to heat up, etc. But where
> is the juice coming from? Has this happened to anyone else?
>
> Help, I'm terrible with electrical problems and my father relies on me to
> keep his little beast going.
> Alex Avery
> Churchville, VA
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