Loosen both gov springs one "click". Then go drive it, if its still touchy, loosen them another click. I had the same issue with my truck (96 P-pump with 4k GSK springs) and 2 clicks made it a whole lot more driveable.

 

be care full doing the above, only because the nuts may not be threaded on that far and 2 clicks out may be only 1 thread engaged

while I do agree with the above I only add caution cause you dont want the nuts coming off.....

and I was going to say get used to it there are no weights on my touchy 24V

and my wife fogs out the road when she drives it......

 

i wouldnt say get used to it. my 4k's dont do it at all. i remember something about one of the throttle return springs breaking. IIRC there are two return springs. one of them breaks quite often with age. you wont notice it with a stock truck though. once you turn up the fuel and it has good throttle response, it will be very noticable, and create the "herky jerky" issue you describe. none of mine have ever done it, so im not 100% sure about it. it woudnt be hard to check anyway.

 

IIRC, the nut that holds down each side of the gov. spring assembly should be set so that the stud sticks out at least one thread. I agree that you definitely dont want only one thread holding the gov springs on, but if set correctly the nut should be fully threaded on, and have a bit of the stud sticking up. One or two clicks really isnt much in terms of thread count, but will make a world of difference in spring tension and touchiness.

Of course this is all assuming nothing else is messed up in the throttle linkage, as busyfixin said, if any of the return springs are broken they must be fixed first.

 

I had the same problem after installing the 4k gov springs, as stated above a slight adjustment fixed the problem.

Pete

 

I put the different throttle arm on with stiffer return springs to help with this problem. And went with the 3 K springs instead.

 

Everybody....thanks for the input. It will be this weekend before I can get to it, but I'm going to try to tweak the spring adjustment and see if that helps. I'll be sure to go over the linkage and return springs too.

Wayne