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Date:         Sun, 19 Mar 2000 13:34:46 -0700
Reply-To:     Bill Nolan <bill@FREEHOLDER.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Bill Nolan <bill@FREEHOLDER.COM>
Subject:      Re: Accelerator cable extras?
Comments: To: Tim Wise <wise@HYPERFORMIX.COM>
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Does your van have cruise control?

At 11:47 AM 3/18/00 -0600, Tim Wise wrote: >I had so much good advice on my clutch problem I'll ask about another problem... > >I have a frayed cable in the engined compartment. I don't know what it does and can't find >it in Bentley, but it looks like it needs to be replaced. > >The cable connects to the lever arm where the accelerator cable terminates. Also connected >to the lever arm is a spring that I assume helps the arm return to neutral position when >you let off on the accelerator cable. > >The other end of the frayed cable heads toward the driver's side of the engine compartment >and terminates into a big diaphram-looking thingy that has small, vacuum-like hoses >running out of it. I don't know what it does either. > >Does anyone know what the cable does and is called so I can ask for a replacement? > >All this is in a '87 Wolfsburg Westfalia Weekender, 2.1 digifant, water cooled. > >Many thanks. >-- >Tim Wise >'87 WWW > Bill (SE Arizona) (Bill@freeholder.com) HTTP://www.freeholder.com ---------------------------------------------------------- Censorship is the assassination of ideas. No matter how well-meaning its proponents may be, they are more dangerous to us than any outside enemy.


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