Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 13:48:29 -0600
Reply-To: miguel pacheco <mundopacheco@GMAIL.COM>
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From: miguel pacheco <mundopacheco@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Gas pedal push rod comes unseated
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Michael, I'm not anywhere near my Bentley, but I can look later. As I
recall, the vertical link that drops from above, has one 90 degree
bend at it's lower end (I realize it has another on the other end, but
this is what is actually visible, beneath floorboard.) It should have
that barb, almost at its end. Without it, you should be able to reach
up there and without too much resistance, pull it right out of the
linkage. I'm going by fuzzy memory here, but I think I'm close
enough.......
Miguel
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Rocket J Squirrel
<camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Miguel,
>
> My accelerator linkage is usually a bit sticky when I first press on it,
> I've been thinking about getting some bits refreshed.
>
> That "teat/barb" thing that you had trouble with -- does it appear on page
> 20.31 in Bentley's so I can see what you're referring to?
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
> On 10/3/2009 12:28 PM miguel pacheco wrote:
>
>> Michael, maybe you had the classic freezing of a tiny bit of water
>> within the accelerator cable conduit. This usually happens the first
>> time you push the pedal and I realize you had already driven some
>> distance, but I'm just saying.
>> Your linkage may be worn and needs replaced. I did 350K miles on my
>> first Syncro.....at 300K, the little teat/barb that keeps it all
>> together, under there, wore away enough that it would not stay
>> together any longer. At that time I had a parts van and was able to do
>> a quick swap. I just discussed this with a fellow Vanagonaut, and he
>> mentioned that he purchased all these bits, new, from VanCafe, though
>> I have not substantiated it yet. If it is available, new, I would do
>> it. This is one of those things that will make your life miserable,
>> I'm sure you know.
>>
>> Miguel
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Rocket J Squirrel
>> <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 10/3/2009 11:32 AM Stephen Grisanti wrote:
>>>
>>>> Same thing happened to me about a year ago on the city's six-lane main
>>>> drag. [...] Â Never felt anything suspicious leading up to it and never
>>>> found a reason for the pushrod to have come loose and it hasn't happened
>>>> again. Â Various Vanagon parts just letting us know they're there, I
>>>> reckon.
>>>
>>> Yeah, that's probably as good an explanation as we can expect.
>>>
>>> Because I checked out Karl's suggestion. The rivets have not come loose
>>> at
>>> the front of the pedal, the thing has no side-to-side wiggleability. And
>>> I
>>> cannot think of any way that the smooth flat plastic bottom of this
>>> stability boot, the sole of which is a rectangle with rounded corners,
>>> about 5'' wide and 13'' long, could have glommed onto the pedal and
>>> lifted
>>> it off the pushrod.
>>>
>>> Antigravity or something.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>>> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>>> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
>>> Bend, OR
>>> KG6RCR
>>>
>>
>
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