Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:28:59 -0500
Reply-To: John Koloski <koloski@TOAD.NET>
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From: John Koloski <koloski@TOAD.NET>
Subject: Re: Throttle cable
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My linkage came loose too. There's a 6mm bent steel rod that snaps into
the bottom of the plastic gas pedal and then fits through a hole in a lever
bolted to the frame that the throttle cable attaches to (after it goes
through thr hole in the floor). It's in a little plastic box that you can
get to when you take the spare tire out. My repair was over kill. It
porbably only came out of the lever because it was already out of the gas
pedal. I probably could have just snaped the thing together again. I did
the repair outdoors in the ice and snow and I wanted to make sure I never
had to do it again. I ground off the little bent end of the rod that goes
through the lever, welded on a 10 mm steel nut ( the bolt hole size is 6mm
like the bent steel rod), and ran a 6mm bolt through the hole in the lever
into the nut I weled onto the bent rod, and added a second lock nut and
lot's of lock-tite. Now if the linkage pops of the gas pedal, I can deal
with it from inside the car instead of removing the spare tire and crawling
through ice-water to get to it. A chain always breaks at its weakest link,
so now it has to break somewhere harder to get at and more expensive to
fix. I would suggest that you fix yours the easy way.
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> From: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Throttle cable
> Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 11:00 AM
>
> Possibly nothing is broken. Look under your gas pedal and see if the
> linkage has come loose. Mine did in the same situation.
>
> Karl Wolz
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Schaper" <JSchaper@SCHSA.ORG>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 8:49 AM
> Subject: Throttle cable
>
>
> > I did something stupid that broke my throttle cable. With the rpm's at
> 2000
> > at a stop light I used my toe to try to bring the accelerator pedal
back
> to
> > reduce the rpm's. (I know it is probably the throttle switch).
Anyway,
> it
> > broke, but since it was dark and I couldn't investigate further, I
don't
> > know what broke. Has anybody done anything similarly stupid? What
broke,
> > what do I need to replace--my guess is after looking at Bentley is the
> > "relay lever", "pin", or clamping bold. I looked at the engine
> accelerator
> > cable and it is OK, the cable is still attached. Any help would be
> > appreciated.
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