throttle spring

[redseal8]

I seen a thread a couple days ago and i can't seem to find it any where. But the guy was talking about moving the throttle spring for the gas and puting it on the brake. He said it gave it alot of response when taking off. Does anyone anything about this?

[KyLeader7]

thats what i did. it just makes the brakes last longer i think.

[redseal8]

how do you do it?? Do you just take the spring off the gas and the little beed thing holding it there and move the beed to the brake and you are set???

[redck1979]

you talking about this post?...i actually bought a couple of the shaft collars that the throttle return spring is attached to...if you look in the pic carefully, right above the fuel pressure tube on the right edge of the pic you can see the other shaft collar that the throttle return spring is attached to...

here is my solution to the Jato's braking issue...the combination of jato75's brake mod and switching the stock servo to a high torque servo work very well together IMO...this is my brake setup and i can lock my brakes every time if i want them too, and when throttle is applied it sets my brakes to neutral so i get no brake drag what soever while the truck is in motion...so here goes...first i swapped the TRX 2018 w/the TRX 2055(seeing i upgraded my steering servo), then instead of using the piece of bic pen or fuel line like many others do, what i have done is used a 13/16" long piece of 1/4" X .049 aluminum tube, a 5/16" X 1/4" round rubber bushing, & a 3/32" shaft collar...first i unattached the brake linkage from the servo horn and then removed all the parts from the linkage...then slid the shaft collar on the brake linkage followed by putting the rod guide back on then reattached it to the servo horn, put the rubber bushing on, then spring, slid the aluminum tubing over the spring and finally the brake adjustment dial...*** caution anyone that wants to use this version of the brake mod, as i have found it works very well but if its not carefully adjusted it can actually apply the brakes when you apply your throttle all the way...i noticed that if the brakes are forced to the "un-applied/off" position to far, the cam will actually push the brake piston out against the brake pad(but not as far as when you actually apply the brakes in the correct direction)...so to properly adjust them you have to make sure the rear wheels are lifted up off the ground, and fully apply the throttle...then move the brake linkage around to find the spot where you get no resistance from the brakes when you spin the wheels...now slide the shaft collar against the servo horn on the brake linkage and tighten it down...with this mod you will get brakes w/the ability to lock them up and be controllable at the same time because of the rubber bushing giving you some leeway, and you get no brake drag while truck is in motion...w/this setup you will have very consistent brakes providing periodic adjustments are made to the screws on the pads due to normal pad/disk wear...the only other thing i can think of possibly adding to this mod to make it better would be by upgrading the stock brake cam lever to the Golden Horizons aluminum brake cam lever...well on to the pic...