Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 21:20:32 -0600
Reply-To: Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
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From: Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: broken gas pedal
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I had that same problem once in my 63 DC, & had to drive 700 miles
home w/ the heel duct taped to the floor mat til I could get a new
pedal.
YMMV,
Mr. BZ
On May 11, 2009, at 8:15 PM, Joy Hecht wrote:
> Thanks, Ric, but that isn't what is broken. The rod is attached to
> the
> pedal. The pedal is no longer attached to the floor (or whatever
> it was
> attached to) at the "heel" rather than the "toe" end of the pedal.
>
> Anyone else have any suggestions?
>
> Joy
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Richard Golen
> <rgolen@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Joy,
>>
>> The metal rod which comes up from the floor bends to the left at a 90
>> degree angle at the top of the rod. That 90 degree bend clips into
>> a slot on
>> the backside of the gas pedal.
>>
>> Ric
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 23:31:00 -0230
>>> From: jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU
>>> Subject: broken gas pedal
>>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>
>>>
>>> So the latest in my never-ending saga of van problems - I got in
>>> to go
>>> somewhere today, and my gas pedal is broken. The bottom end of
>>> the pedal,
>>> which apparently should be attached to something in the floor, is
>>> not
>>> attached to anything. So I have no leverage to push on it, it
>>> just flops
>>> around. It actually looks like the plastic at the bottom end
>>> should be
>> able
>>> to bend flexibly when you push on the gas, but it has simply worn
>>> out and
>>> broken.
>>>
>>> Has this happened to anyone before? How do you fix it?
>>>
>>> In the very short run, I think I can jerry-rig something by
>>> attaching a
>>> piece of some sort of slightly-pliable plastic to the pedal, and
>>> wedging
>> it
>>> in the hole in the carpet through which the pedal used to go, so
>>> I can
>> get
>>> my van somewhere besides where she's sitting right now. But I
>>> think that
>>> will only be a very temporary fix.
>>>
>>> Is this very weird, or a normal problem? I've never heard of such
>>> a thing
>>> happening!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Joy
>>
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