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Huge wrote:
Had a similar thing with a BMC - the Earth Strap had a bad connection
and ithen starting the throttle cable would get hot and melt the
nylon lining of the outer cable causing it to stick. Once cool it
would free off again.

I had this happen on a Rover SD1, except it didn't free off again
properly. I drove the car home with a "binary" throttle setting -
"roar!" coast "roar!" coast [repeat for an hour or so)

Same here - on mine the ground strap was short and mounted on the
alternator bracket. Just in the place to get knocked when changing a fan
belt. Or draining the cooling system, via the bottom hose. And it
eventually pulled out of its crimped terminal, and grounded via the
throttle cable. Which melted. Made up a longer ground strap using nice
flexible welding cable and routed it out of the way.

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*I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.

Dave Plowman London SW
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