Hand Throttle

[d2dave]

Has anyone ever fitted a hand throttle like the older 4x4s used to have?

I have just fitted a heat exchanger for hot showers and to get the water nice and hot engine needs to be running above idle.

This would also be handy for winching.

Dave.

[Blknight.aus]

yep, Ive fitted them to counties defenders and fozzy.

[Bush65]

A hand throttle is on my long list of jobs. I was thinking along the lines of a gear shift lever and cable from a pushbike.

[Psimpson7]

What car / engine is it Dave? That will have a bearing on how you would do it.

Rgds
Pete

[Scouse]

A hand throttle is on my long list of jobs. I was thinking along the lines of a gear shift lever and cable from a pushbike.Early to mid '80s diesel Japanese trucks had a hand throttle knob. It's a screw action so it's easy to get the desired speed.

I used one off a 2t Daihatsu for a project a few years ago.

[d2dave]

yep, Ive fitted them to counties defenders and fozzy.

Good to see you have done it but could you let us in on how you went about it.

Dave.

[d2dave]

What car / engine is it Dave? That will have a bearing on how you would do it.

Rgds
Pete

Pete,
96 TDI Disco

Dave.

[Blknight.aus]

What I fit varies with what can be done and what the owner wants

for you're setup I reccomend a series style choke cable and fit that up to the throttle plate alongside the kickdown cable fitting point for the auto securing the handle end to the steering column.

[Urban Panzer]

Be nice to be able to fit one to a TD5.......A little more difficult I suspect.

Really annoying sometimes when your under the bonnet and you might need to increase the RPM, and theres nuffin to do it with :(

[JDNSW]

Be nice to be able to fit one to a TD5.......A little more difficult I suspect.

Really annoying sometimes when your under the bonnet and you might need to increase the RPM, and theres nuffin to do it with :(

I have not looked at a TD5, but I suspect it would not involve a lot of fabrication to arrange a hand throttle that operated on the accelerator pedal rather than going through to the engine compartment. Same applies in fact for any engine.

John

[Quarks]

My impression of the Td5 was that all you needed to do in order to make a hand throttle, was to get a variable resistor and a few wires hooked up.

All the accelerator pedal (throttle position sensor, is it?) does is vary voltage to the ecu, so it can't be that hard to mimic. ;)

:)
Geoff

[Blknight.aus]

not that hard

use a shimano shift cable that has the teflon sleeve drill up from the bottom of the fire wall under the accelerator and put a 16th inch hole in the pedal. wire it up and secure the shift mech somewhere convenient.

Dead easy and works on everything.

[DeanoH]

My impression of the Td5 was that all you needed to do in order to make a hand throttle, was to get a variable resistor and a few wires hooked up.

All the accelerator pedal (throttle position sensor, is it?) does is vary voltage to the ecu, so it can't be that hard to mimic. ;)

:)
Geoff

A 2 pole switch pot so that it can switch itself out of circuit, in parallel with the accelerator pot sounds good in theory and easily wired into the dash. Hmmm..........................worth looking at.

I've found the best benefit of a hand throttle is constant engine revs when you're being tossed around in rough terrain.


Deano