Throttle pedal proluems??

[DemonGT]

started my car today and it reved to 5K RPM...the throttle cable feels like it sits half way down..like there is only a inch and a half to the floor? i climbed under the dash and looked and found a round metal plate not attached to anything ..it had a hole in the middle? and when i looked up at the throttle cable i could see about a inch of it just hanging there ...

its like something isnt taking up the slack...i checked the thottle body and it seems to be working ok..i disconnected the cable from the T.B. and pulled and its all the way out...the problum seems to be under the dash? what is under there that takes up slack?? really confused on this?


EDIT: looked in my Haynes manual and it shows a pic of the top of the gas pedal arm and it shows that plate..it goes on the firewall behind the pedal arm..it has two holes on each side that are REALLY small....what is its purpose? could that little plate be whats causeing my throttle to be messed up??

 

[Saleen0679]

If you're talking about the round silver shaped retainer with the slot, the shop manual calls it a body insulation retainer. It is pressed over the metal end of the throttle cable that protrudes into the passenger compartment.

If the spring and cable are clear from interference at the throttle body like you said and there is no internal binding, something else you can check is for free play at the pedal with the cable disconnected to see if the pedal pivot happens to be the problem.

 

[DemonGT]

the pedal sits at least half way down from where it should be...i checked the throttle body and the butterfly is shut...i looked under the dash at the top of the gas pedal and when i lift up on the gas pedal to where it normaly sat there is about a inch of cable loose....

its hard to tell whats going on exactly up under the dash..there is no room up to the top of the gas pedal arm...it makes no sense to me...the T.B. is shut all the way...but yet there is slack in the cable....when i parked the car in the garage for the winter it was fine...i had to fix a coolent leak and just got down with that...now this gas pedal problem...and i never messed with the throttle cable? i did mess with the IAC...i removed a bolt and loosen the other and clocked it so i could get the valve cover off...other then that..never mess with any of that

P.S. what do you mean by pedal pivot??

 

[Saleen0679]

P.S. what do you mean by pedal pivot??

The pivot point that the arm swings on. Basically the mount for the pedal arm. I was just thinking that maybe the arm was binding and not allowing the pedal to return back to normal position. The pedal flops around normally with about an inch or less of free play. The only thing the keeps the pedal from falling to the floor is the cable stop at the very end of the throttle cable.

I looked up there again and didn't really see much. The throttle cable has a cable stop at the very end and it looks like another one up about two inches or so right before it gets to the firewall. Between the cable stops is where the pedal is hooked to. After that is just goes through the insulation retainer then out into the engine bay.

 

[DemonGT]

humm...i still dont understand...mabe the cable is shot?....