Was she using cruise control at that time? this may have something to do
with it..
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall Chet" <rdc@southpaw-design.com>
To: "Dakota Mailing List" <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 3:37 AM
Subject: DML: Important Safety Question
> Good Evening All-
>
> I don't post much to the list, but my wife had quite a scare this
> afternoon in our 99 Durango, and i need to know if anyone else here has
> had a similar trouble. My wife and our 3 kids were coming back from
> visiting her folks, and there is quite a grade up to our town, so when
> she got up to the top on the highway, she let up on the accelerator and
> surprise, the truck kept going! It got up to about 80 before she decided
> to shut off the engine. I came to pick up the truck, and it started fine
> and idled right down. She drove the car, and once I started off I could
> tell the truck definately had something wrong with the linkage, I could
> hardly get up to highway speed, there hardly was any pedal travel. Once
> at home the problem was easily found: the accelerator cable had slipped
> off the pulley on the throttle arm.
>
> Has anyone had this happen to them? Are there any tsb's out on this
> problem? Is this a freak occurance? She really doesn't want to trust the
> truck until I can tell her that it is definately fixed and won't happen
> again.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Randall Chet
>
>
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