I've never had any problems just pulling the old one out from the front (after both ends were loose) and wiping the new one down with a light coat of lubriplate and sending it back through the tube. I normally have to lay under the tranny and guide it through the fire wall and empty my pockets to find the little cinch bolt for the throttle body lever. Stan Wilder On Wed, 14 May 2003 10:09:25 -0700 Kevin McLean <Kevin_McLean@MORROWENV.COM> writes: > Please post your responses to the list. I'm changing my accelerator > cable > this weekend (if it doesn't snow or rain) and could also use any > pearls of > wisdon you may have. > > Kevin > 87 Syncro Westy > > > > > > John Schaper <JSchaper@SCHSA.ORG>@gerry.vanagon.com> on 05/14/2003 > 10:53:06 > AM > > Please respond to John Schaper <JSchaper@SCHSA.ORG> > > Sent by: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> > > > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > cc: > > Subject: Accelerator cable > > > My accelerator cable broke today. I looked in Bentley and it looks > like a > pretty simple task. Are there any tricks to installing the cable? > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! |
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