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 Author  Topic: Throttle Push Rods
David Buck

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Post a Reply To This Topic    Reply With Quotes     Edit Message     View Profile of David Buck   Send Email To David Buck Posted on: Oct 14, 2014 - 2:19am
Al, Jeff,

Would either of you two gents have a drawing that shows the Throttle push rods, I am interested in the ends were they would have changed direction up near the cockpit.

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Jeff D

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Post a Reply To This Topic    Reply With Quotes     Edit Message     View Profile of Jeff D   Send Email To Jeff D Posted on: Oct 14, 2014 - 5:43am
Check out the Elco Parts catalog David, starting on page 153. The image on page 179 shows the cover inside the turret. I haven't run across a drawing for this piece so I'm unsure if it is the same cover on all boats. Let me know if the catalog doesn't have enough detail for you, I can dig through the drawings.

For anyone reading that is not aware of the catalog, Dick has made it available on the Free PT Documents page: http://www.ptboatforum.com/PT_Boat_Documents.html.



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RANDY SMITH

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DAVID I have photos of all the (HIGGINS) parts on my home computer, I will post later.

 photo THROTELS.jpg

 photo THRODELSENGINEROOM.jpg

The part you are looking for is similar to these but where the handles are there is a clevis pin and rod that goes up to the throttle's and the cable goes around the shiv.

 photo DSC_0347.jpg

 photo DSC_0346.jpg

 photo DSC_0342.jpg

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alross2

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Post a Reply To This Topic    Reply With Quotes     Edit Message     View Profile of alross2   Send Email To alross2 Posted on: Oct 14, 2014 - 7:18am
ELCO, HIGGINS, or HUCKINS?

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Drew Cook

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Post a Reply To This Topic    Reply With Quotes     Edit Message     View Profile of Drew Cook  Posted on: Oct 14, 2014 - 9:38am
Definitely not Elco.

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Jeff D

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Post a Reply To This Topic    Reply With Quotes     Edit Message     View Profile of Jeff D   Send Email To Jeff D Posted on: Oct 14, 2014 - 11:31am
Cool Randy, man what a ton of work you guys are doing but they look great. Is that the 305s?

Word Al, guilty of assumption. I'm going to go flagellate myself for a while. (*!*)



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RANDY SMITH

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The green rods come from the throttles hook to the arms and you can see the cables going through the bulkhead. the second two are in the officer quarters and engine room.


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alross2

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Post a Reply To This Topic    Reply With Quotes     Edit Message     View Profile of alross2   Send Email To alross2 Posted on: Oct 14, 2014 - 4:55pm
Here are the photos from the ELCO Parts Manual:






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  Jerry Gilmartin

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Post a Reply To This Topic    Reply With Quotes     Edit Message     View Profile of Jerry Gilmartin   Send Email To Jerry Gilmartin Posted on: Oct 14, 2014 - 9:43pm
Randy,
It appears the Elco boats did not use the aircraft style cable and pulley system that is used on the Higgins. It looks like they used solid push rods. Weird right?

Jerry Gilmartin
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Portland OR

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Stuart Hurley

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Hi,
In one way It's actually a much better engineering solution as there is very little lost in translating the relatively small throttle lever movement over such a long run. Difficult to repair if damaged though, I would think.

Best Regards,
Stu.





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