Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 14:59:33 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Lockers -- how hard to install LLSD?
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hi.
yes.....hear you on the ski boot affect, regarding angle flex.
I know exactly what you are talking about.
and one can not drive a car with downhill ski boots on at all.
re
Would not shortening the pushrod with that threaded rod pull the throttle open?
It would seem so, but 'no'.
it only changes the relationship between the angle of the lever on the side of the trans and the throttle plate.
say there's not throttle cable installed in the van at all.
then you have just those two parts connected by the adjustable length rod ..
the lever on the trans is free to 'float' some.
or look at it this way ..
throttle stays are zero opening.
you change length of rod ..
lever on side of trans is moved this way or that .
when that relationship is where you want it,
install the cable from the gas pedal back onto the van.
no need to actually remove the cable from the gas pedal of course ..
just wrote that to illustrate the point.
that lock nut adjustment is goofy.
Jeff Stewart recently asked how to undo that ..
and he called it a cable even though it's a rod too.
you either remove the throttle body from the plenum, and rotate the whole throttle body to screw or unscrew in the rod,
OR you push that spring back on the end and undo the clip there ..
both ways are a hassle to do.
the plastic bushing, btw ..at the forward end of the rod ..
at the trans lever..
those are often shot and out of place, making play there, affecting the relationship between throttle plate and trans lever.
also ..
the ball pivot a the top of the trans lever, for the throttle cable..those rust up, are very hard to get at or even see.....but important to make sure that pivot point is good.
about lowering your trans..
that small hose from metal pipe on top of engine to plastic waterjunction on firewall..
any tension on that hose, and it breaks the plastic pipe nipple off on the water junction piece.
this has happened to hundreds of 1.9 wbxr vans..
You just look at that hose funny, and the plastic hose nipple breaks off.
so make sure your guys know to undo the small hose from the metal crossover pipe on top of the engine.
Scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Rocket J Squirrel
To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: Lockers -- how hard to install LLSD?
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Rocky J Squirrel
page 37.17 in Bentley talks about adjust the rod length I've been talking
about.hortening the rod could make the kickdown
there are two discussions there , one for early automatics, one for the
later.
I'm looking at 37.17 says; "If shift points are incorrect or transmission does not kick down, check accelerator cable adjustments." 37.15 describes how to adjust the linkage.
The kick down in the van works fine, but with a fused ankle it's like trying to push the pedal down while wearing downhill ski boots. Most are not aware that the pivot point of the pedal, being at the bottom, assumes that one can flex one's ankle to achieve the desired amount welly from the engine because we rest our heel on the floor. Brakes one simply depresses so ankle flexing, which being good for fine control, is not required, one simply presses the whole foot down.
just glancing at it, it looks to me like they are speaking mainly of the
kick-down feature with the rod length, but I think it also affects when the
trans shifts up in normal driving.
I don't get it. Would not shortening the pushrod with that threaded rod pull the throttle open?
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Rocky J Squirrel
