This is what I love about this hobby,everybody is always willing to help out. Thanks Randy and Il-RC for the great ideas.I'm using one those SPE 26 engines that I picked up from Maxford aka Green models.I was playing around with it last night and I think I might have come up with a solution.I'm using a ball link on the throttle arm which I made out of a Dubro heavy duty servo arm, and then stranded cable through a nylon sleeve to the servo mounted on a set of rails about 10" back from the engine to another ball link.Both ball links are nylon so there should not be any metal to metal contact at the throttle connection. But I'm always open to ideas.Keep em come'n