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OK,
I need your help one more time. I installed one of them plastic pushrods, the one with a plastic sleeve on the ouside, and plastic thinner rod on the inside. I glued and drilled into my smooth piper cub firewall a plastic sleeve, installed the engine, and throttle servo, then to MY COMPLETE HORROR the rod and the throttle arm are not lined up! The pushrod comes out of the F/wall at about 1/4 inch away. My question is: Is there a throttle linkage thing to help resolve this problem? Should I get a wire pushrod? Any comments always appreciated. Thank ou.

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POCHO,
Depending if you are 1/4 inch off high/low, or left/right of the throttle arm, you can probably get away with using a ball link on the throttle arm and nyrod link.

Should this not work, try putting a "Z" bend in the nyrod's metal threaded pushrod. The size, and direction, of the "Z" bend will be determined by offset of pushrod and throttle arm.

Either method should work. A 1/4 inch is not that bad.

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Could you add a short length of 2-56 wire to the end of the plastic rod and bend it enough to reach the throttle? I have a "situation" with an OS FS-70 II that has a rear carb and the throttle arm almost touches the engine mount. I plan on running the pushrod through the firewall above the mount and using an "L" bend in the wire end to reach the throttle arm.

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Yeah Im about 1/4 inch to the left of the the throttle arm. Thes are both great ideas. I will try both to see which will work out best, thank you. (My first scale project has become somewhat of a nuisance)

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No Problem!

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Another way which works well and will accomodate a much greater missalignment is to just run the pushrod out past the throttle connection, bend a U turn in the wire and come back to the throttle all lined up. This does require that you have a metal end long enough for the bend to be threaded into the nyrod at its exit of the firewall. This works very well with 4 strokes where you have to clear the fuel tank with the control rod yet get back to the throttle positioned inboard and very near the firewall.

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Yea, I've done it Rodneys way too. That works well.

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I defer to Rodney's idea. I just did some office-supply empherical testing (bending large paper clips) and the "U" has is much less slop than an "L" or "Z" with the same offset, though I can't determine "Y". . . I mean why.