Hand throttle control

I miss the hand adjustable throttle control on my 70 series Land Cruiser - you could set it and forget it and crawl over stuff with no jerkiness from the truck bouncing against your foot/accelerator pedal.

Is anything like this available for the 3rd gen?

 

I imagine it would be tough to do since everything is electronic now. Back with my rock crawler, I used a bicycle brake lever clamped to my shifter and ran a cable to the throttle body. I wouldn’t have a clue how to do it now.

 

That's what I'm thinking too - it would have to be electronic. Oh well, good reason to get another Cruiser.

 

Isn't that pretty much what crawl control does? You have 5 speed settings.

 

I have an SR without that.

 

You asked, "Is anything like this available for the 3rd gen?" The answer is yes, crawl control.

 

Here's a little something I found... electronic hand throttle from a foreign market Dyna. Truck is 24 volt, though... and far from plug and play.

 

what do they use for wheelchair accessable minivans?

 

Crawl control

But seriously I'm sure ADA has something for em

 

Pretty sure crawl control isn’t available with a manual trans so that wouldn’t be an option for everyone.

 

I don't think adding Crawl Control now is an option, is it?

 

Nope!

 

LOL - did not think so.

 

Oh, so you meant to ask, "Is there an aftermarket add-on that is similar to a feature I had from the factory on my LandCruiser?"

 

24 volts has nothing to do with the switch. They all work the same.

 

You do realize that’s a choke switch, not throttle control, right?

 

You could take a pedal assembly, modify it so that the electronic mechanism that signals the ECU (is it a variable resistor or something more precise?) of the pedal position is controlled by some lever with a friction lock and then wire it in parallel with a switch so you could select foot pedal or hand throttle. I wouldn't recommend that but it seems like a way you could do it.

 

Diesel engines don't have a choke. This is a throttle switch, idle up. It is for manually controlling engine rpm while operating the PTO that the Toyota Dyna has.

 

look at the symbol on the switch. And on a diesel Idle up is NOT throttle control. Again very different purpose. I use it all the time on my diesel, as you said increases idle for PTO / alternator output.

 

That is the symbol Toyota uses on this switch/dial, they install it on diesels only. Further study shows an idle up button on the same vehicle, perhaps to activate this? It should work for a hand throttle on gassers, if it can be integrated.