Date:         Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:48:30 -0600
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: nuts
Comments: To: Brian Honan <cartruckbus@GMAIL.COM>
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---- Brian Honan <cartruckbus@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Last week I got in my GL after work and the gas pedal felt a little funny. I
> drove down the street thinking something must be up with right where the
> pedal connects to the throttle cable. Lucky I was on a side street when the
> pedal sticks to the floor and the van is beginning to accelerate. With a
> knee jerk reaction I put the van in neutral then pull over and turn the key.
> I look under the van at where i thought the problem was and everything seems
> fine? so I think follow the throttle cable. I open the engine hatch and low
> and behold there is a large walnut jammed in the throttle body. That was an
> easy fix that actually gave me a laugh. However today I open the hatch to my
> westy different van and there sitting right at the throttle body was a nut!
> it looked like a Brazilian nut. It was not big enough to cause a problem. I
> actually cracked it open and ate it!
>
> Brian Honan
>
> Harrisburg PA where there are lots of nut bearing trees.

Well, the Brazil nut did't grow there.  But, trees or not, you also have at least one squirrel, I'd say.

David McNeely