Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 12:38:03 -0700
Reply-To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Gas pedal push rod comes unseated
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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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