Date:         Mon, 11 May 2009 22:24:53 -0400
Reply-To:     Mike Collum <collum@MYFAIRPOINT.NET>
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From:         Mike Collum <collum@MYFAIRPOINT.NET>
Subject:      Re: broken gas pedal
Comments: To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
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Joy Hecht wrote:
> The bottom end of the pedal, which apparently should be attached to something in the floor, is not
> attached to anything.


 From the factory, the pedal was attached to the floor with two rivets.
  Those rivets broke on my '84 automatic and I fixed them with screws
and nuts.  In that I usually work alone, I had no one to hold the nuts
to get the screws started so I used JB Quick to attach them to the
underside then put the screws in from the top.

They later broke on my '85 standard ... away from home, of course, so I
punched out what remained of the broken rivets and ran long wood screws
through from the top.  They didn't actually screw to anything ... they
just sat in the holes.  Anyway, that "Temporary" fix to get me home
lasted over a year until I put screws and nuts on there.

Mike