Date:         Sun, 30 Jan 2000 12:08:53 -0500
Reply-To:     "Carrington, Tom" <tcarrington@RELITECH.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Carrington, Tom" <tcarrington@RELITECH.COM>
Subject:      Re: Help: Stuck accelerator pedal
Comments: To: Dick Taylor <hetchins@MONTANA.COM>
Content-Type: text/plain

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