Great job to alert us to this! Last night, I checked mine, and it was fairly close, so I pulled it over where there was some air space, but the main thing I found was that I had entirely too much free play in the accelerator pedal. The pedal would push down about 3/8" before the engine would accelerate. The owner's manual said about 1/16" to 1/8" free is the recommendation. I found the adjuster after removing the seat and the panel behind the seat. Lo and behold you did not need wrenches to make the adjustment! They were thinking! Pull the rubber boot covering the adjuster assembly back over the locking wheel to expose the adjuster assembly. There is a small wheel to be turned to free the adjuster, turn the adjuster to take up the excess slack in the throttle cable, check for proper free play at the accelerator pedal, then re-tighten the small locking wheel to the adjuster. Next, start the engine, kick the accelerator pedal a couple of times to rev up the engine and let it come back to idle. If it idles properly, revs up, and comes right back to idle as it should, you're done. If it idles erratically or too fast, readjust the cable to put a little slack back into the cable.
My adjuster was turned all the way in so that it must have never been adjusted properly to begin with. Now that job is done!
