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Old May 20th, 2022, 16:32   #1
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Hi all, well bit the bullet and bought the 340 auto. There are one or two niggles which i am working through.The most annoying is the car is stuck in low ratio, done most of the test and found a broken accelerator cable, the plastic part with the earth tab is broken where it passes through the bulk head. if pushing on it from inside the car the low ratio light will come on. Are all 340 accelerator cables the same manual and auto, tried online no joy. Can't seem to find one even second hand. Maybe some one can enlighten as to where i might find one. many thanks
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The above company has helped me out in the past. They will manufacture cables for you. Give them a call and ask them if they can help.

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It is not so much a low ratio that your auto is stuck in, but the vacuum control system. The variomatic uses a combination of centrifugal force and vacuum in the front pulleys, spring load in the rear pulleys and traction force in the belts to shift up and down. Without vacuum assistance the auto stays quite long in a relatively lower ratios. Above say 35 - 40 mph the centrifugal force will be dominant over the belt pulling forces / spring load and shift to a higher ratio anyway. Fine for quick acceleration as you have maximum engine power, but a bit unnerving for normal driving.
Each front pulley drum contains a membrane. If engine vacuum is applied to one side of the membrane, it will cause the vario to shift up earlier. When braking or applying the descent brake feature, vacuum is applied to the other side of the membrane, causing the vario to shift to a lower ratio.
Quite often one or both membranes are leaking, resulting in late upshifting when acellerating normally. There are two rubber vacuum hoses running from the control switch to the variomatic. If you pull these hoses off from the control switch (mounted at the bulkhead) and blow in one of them, you should not be able to blow through. If you can blow through, at least one membrane is leaking.
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