Hey all

Tried it out on the trail yesterday. Worked great!

 

Interesting. Wouldn't have thought of that approach. Even more interesting when you consider the recall of Toyotas and I heard rumer some Jeeps were being recalled.

 

It might be because of my age but I always used the right foot gas brake and the left foot clutch method on steep and technical terrain. Any thing will work with practice.

 

Cant this be routed straight to your throttle on your engine rather than on the pedal? Would that be a better system? I dont know im asking and wondering???

 

No. The computer needs to know what the gas pedal is doing. There is no place on the throttle body to connect the cable anyway.

 

Isn't the gas pedal just hooked up to some sort of rheostat or variable-resistor? It's drive by wire, so couldn't the same thing be accomplished electronically?

I wouldn't use it, but I see it's purpose, and it's really nice install. Good job OP

 

you know, I bet you could take another pedal apart and make it work that way

 

I don't think the computer would like having two pedal sensors in the system.
It sends power through the OEM sensor, and reads the voltage that comes out.
Having another path would screw everything up.

 

The original hand throttle in the older 4x4's was not so you could hold throttle and drive at the same time.

According to the manual for an old FJ40 shortie I had it was because there was no such thing as electric winches.

All winches were power take off, you would engage the shaft of your PTO and by using the hand throttle; you could increase or decrease the speed of the winch. (PTO winches had to be driven from inside the truck).

There was actually a warning in the manual with regards to driving with the hand throttle.

The safe way to achieve what you are doing here is to purchase something like the Flashpaq; which has a crawl mode (JK only) which makes the skinny very user friendly and works very well.

As electric winches became more common (would still be good mod for today although the flashpaq allows you to do this as well), is to use it whilst you are in neutral so you can increase the RPM for electric winching or use for other electric tools to increase the output of the Alternator.

MY2C for what it’s worth.

 

Very nice idea, I was thinking actually in something to assist engine in winching (when I'll have a winch, that is).
I seem to recall another post in which they talk about a system that would interface with the electronics, but it would certainly cost far more ....