If you get water in the tube with your throttle cable, it can turn to ice and cause your cable to bind up. There are little rubber boots that are on the ends of the tube to keep things dry. Can you get your van into a heated garage to thaw out? If you do and the problem goes away, then that would confirm the ice theory. TomC tcarrington@relitech.com http://volksweb.relitech.com 85 Vanagon Crew Cab 82 Westy diesel=>gas conversion 65 Notchback > -----Original Message----- > From: Dick Taylor [SMTP:hetchins@MONTANA.COM] > Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 12:18 PM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Help: Stuck accelerator pedal > > Help. 1987 syncro. My accelerator pedal is stuck in the full-on position. > I > can pull (hard) on the cable in the engine compartment and get it back to > its normal position, but when I press down on the pedal again, it goes > down > and stays there. Obviously there is some problem with the cable somewhere > along its run. Temperature here is 10 degrees F. Bus drove fine and was > parked outdoors for 3 hours before the problem happened. > > Is this a symptom of a dying cable, which is maybe frayed at some point? > Will I be able to spot the problem area if I crawl under the bus with a > flashlight in my hand? This is my first winter with this bus, so I don't > know if this is maybe a cold-weather thing. > > All advice and assistance gratefully accepted. > > Dick Taylor > hetchins@montana.com |
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