New Hampshire CMP Barn 2011- 2012 HUP Overhaul

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Guys

You guys are right working in the barn is both sanity and for exercise. Being unable to work in the shop for a couple of weeks was driving me right up the walls. Not sure if working and driving CMPs is exercise or if you have to exercise to work and drive them. My normal exercise program is an hour of exercise class followed by a 2 mile walk and a 2 mile run at the gym three times a week. When I get back from the gym I have to go right out to the barn and start working on the truck because if I sit down I stiffen up.

But I did get back out to the shop this week, first project was redoing the hand throttle on the C60S with the 261 engine. Wanted to get the handle throttle working so didn't have to pull the choke out to get high idle.

The carb for the 235 or 262 comes in several versions mine are the manual choke versions but they don't really have a connection for the hand throttle. In the picture below you can see how I added to the bracket to hold the hand throttle cable and the simple connection to the high idle. I had tried the normal connection down through the throttle but it didn't lineup well so the throttle would catch. This approach seems to work very well.

I've also taken the photos of the Pattern 12 throttle peddle, the gas peddle for the HUP and the passenger hold down. So I will be posting those to the other threads.

Cheers Phil