Adding Throttle...

[jmurray01]

JD a lot of people can not even read a road map and they need a GPS to tell them where to turn.
The younger generation learned how to run a computer so the gadgets are normal to them but take away their calculator and they are screwed.

I saw just a few weeks ago that they were going to stop teaching writing because you can use a computer and type you message.

I guess everyone will need to carry a laptop with a printer.:laughing:

Around here the teens buy an old used Honda and spend MORE on stereo system than what the car is worth so they can drive around disturbing the piece with all the booming. :confused2:

There is plenty of that around here. Are they deaf of something ? When I'm listening to the radio in the car, I barely have it above a whisper, but that is how I like it. I can hear it, but I'm not being deafened by it!

 

[jmurray01]

Most drivers today can barely tell what the gas gage is and what it displays. The morons who design dashboards think it more important to have a big bright electronic navigation screen and 50 gazillion watt speaker systems and all sorts of gewgaws and gimcracks that are redundant to operation of a vehicle. Mirrors dim themselves, heating systems regulate themselves, most drivers can barely tell what button controls what function without reading a 500 page owners manual. Had an '85 Ford where heat/ac controls were two slide levers and a fan switch. Then my next car, '92 Olds 98, had 20 tiny buttons and an electronic display panel for the same function controlled by 3 items on the Ford. Did the system on the Olds work better, no. And to change settings required you to look away from the road and try to figure out what button did what. Stupid designers dont know what a decent dashboard should look like so no wonder they put on idiot lights and that is why drivers get so used to not being able to read a gage.

I know what you mean! I was walking past a brand new Ford Fiesta the other day, and it must have had about 30 buttons on the centre console!

Our 1997 Ford Fiesta has 3 buttons:

Rear Window Demist
Rear Fog Lamp
Regulated Air (to reuse the air from the cabin rather than taking it from the outside intake).

Three buttons, and the new one has 30, and I bet there are only a few extra features, but 27 extra buttons...

Also, the new car radios are confusing too.

Going back again to our 1997 Ford Fiesta, it has the original Cassette/Radio, which has an ON/OFF button, a menu button with simple settings, a volume button, a rewind/fast forward/eject button, and that is about it!

The new radios these days have TOUCH SCREENS!

Honestly, a touch screen in a car.

A couple of years ago our Fiesta was in the garage, and we got a 2005 Ford KA courtesy car... It didn't even have a temperature gauge! Just a little light that pops on when you're overheating.

Yeah, that'll be useful when you have already blown your head gasket!

Sheesh.

 

[webuyanymower.com]

Whilst I applaud your thrift and care you are not going to do any harm by letting the engine run as it was designed to do. It is a governed engine and is only running at around 30% of what it is actually capable of.

If you really want to warm it up at a slower speed then the only way to do it is to find a way to close the governor. On the bottom of the governor arm (left hand side of your engine by the air filter box) is a spring if you pull the spring it engine rpm will increase if you take the tension off the spring the engine will slow down (MIND YOUR TOES). If you can make/find something to fit on the governor arm to keep it closed whilst the mower is warming up and remove it when cutting I think this is the best you will achieve.

Personally I would not bother. You are far more likely to damage the machine when cutting grass than by not warming it up.

Good luck.

 

[jmurray01]

Whilst I applaud your thrift and care you are not going to do any harm by letting the engine run as it was designed to do. It is a governed engine and is only running at around 30% of what it is actually capable of.

If you really want to warm it up at a slower speed then the only way to do it is to find a way to close the governor. On the bottom of the governor arm (left hand side of your engine by the air filter box) is a spring if you pull the spring it engine rpm will increase if you take the tension off the spring the engine will slow down (MIND YOUR TOES). If you can make/find something to fit on the governor arm to keep it closed whilst the mower is warming up and remove it when cutting I think this is the best you will achieve.

Personally I would not bother. You are far more likely to damage the machine when cutting grass than by not warming it up.

Good luck.

Thanks for your reply, but I think I'll just leave it in that case. I was hoping I'd be able to fit a fully functional variable throttle, but if not, oh well...

 

[JDgreen]

JD a lot of people can not even read a road map and they need a GPS to tell them where to turn.
The younger generation learned how to run a computer so the gadgets are normal to them but take away their calculator and they are screwed.

I saw just a few weeks ago that they were going to stop teaching writing because you can use a computer and type you message.

I guess everyone will need to carry a laptop with a printer.:laughing:

Around here the teens buy an old used Honda and spend MORE on stereo system than what the car is worth so they can drive around disturbing the piece with all the booming. :confused2:

Know what, for 31 years I drove heavy straight trucks all over Michigan to every county and sometimes out of state, there were days I might have had to find 10 new addresses to delover to, I would sit down with a state map and city maps and a phone book and plot my route ahead of time and 98% of the stops I could find them without calling or asking for directions.

And TODAY people have Google maps and GPS and touchscreen gewgaws to tell them how to get someplace...WHAT A FREAKING LAUGH, all those navigation aids and most of them still can't drive worth S----!!!

Pic is of one of my favorite work trucks, '89 Ford F700 diesel, ran this one 182,000 miles. No GPS, no touchscreen, just a compass.....:laughing::laughing:

 

[jmurray01]

Know what, for 31 years I drove heavy straight trucks all over Michigan to every county and sometimes out of state, there were days I might have had to find 10 new addresses to delover to, I would sit down with a state map and city maps and a phone book and plot my route ahead of time and 98% of the stops I could find them without calling or asking for directions.

And TODAY people have Google maps and GPS and touchscreen gewgaws to tell them how to get someplace...WHAT A FREAKING LAUGH, all those navigation aids and most of them still can't drive worth S----!!!

Pic is of one of my favorite work trucks, '89 Ford F700 diesel, ran this one 182,000 miles. No GPS, no touchscreen, just a compass.....:laughing::laughing:

Nice truck! :biggrin:

I love those old Fords!

 

[Black Bart]

Whilst I applaud your thrift and care you are not going to do any harm by letting the engine run as it was designed to do. It is a governed engine and is only running at around 30% of what it is actually capable of.

If you really want to warm it up at a slower speed then the only way to do it is to find a way to close the governor. On the bottom of the governor arm (left hand side of your engine by the air filter box) is a spring if you pull the spring it engine rpm will increase if you take the tension off the spring the engine will slow down (MIND YOUR TOES). If you can make/find something to fit on the governor arm to keep it closed whilst the mower is warming up and remove it when cutting I think this is the best you will achieve.

Personally I would not bother. You are far more likely to damage the machine when cutting grass than by not warming it up.

Good luck.

If you believe that running a cold engine with cold oil against the Governor is ok then I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I will sell you REALLY CHEAP.:laughing:

 

[benski]

I've tried a bit of un-engineering on these things, but it ultimately didn't seem worth the squeeze. Premium synthetic oil goes in, and I keep my fingers crossed.:ashamed::frown:.

 

[JDgreen]

Nice truck! :biggrin:

I love those old Fords!

Replacement for that one was a '96 F800 diesel, same 20 foot box. Only got 88,000 on that one before I retired...my department didn't have anyone else with a CDL to operate the truck after I left....

 

[jmurray01]

Replacement for that one was a '96 F800 diesel, same 20 foot box. Only got 88,000 on that one before I retired...my department didn't have anyone else with a CDL to operate the truck after I left....

That is a beauty also, but I prefer the F-700! :thumbsup: