Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 21:47:54 -0700
Reply-To: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
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From: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
Subject: Re: gas pedal > accelerator linkage question
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I was driving with a mobility boot, or lack of mobility, due to a ruptured
achilles last year. Left side, but I can imagine.
Karl Wolz
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|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]
|On Behalf Of Rocket J Squirrel
|Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 6:26 PM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: gas pedal > accelerator linkage question
|
|The issue is not the angle of the dangle, the issue is that
|the pedal needs more range of motion, from idle to
|WOT+kickdown, than my fused ankle can provide.
|
|Try driving with a downhill ski boot on your right foot and
|see how well that works.
|
|On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 17:23 -0700, Karl Wolz wrote:
|
|> Why not just screw a wooden (or other material) wedge to the top of
|> the pedal, rather than playing with the linkage?
|>
|> Karl Wolz
|>
|>
|>
|> |-----Original Message-----
|> |From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]
|> |On Behalf Of Rocket J Squirrel
|> |Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 3:16 PM
|> |To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|> |Subject: gas pedal > accelerator linkage question
|> |
|> |I'm looking at modifying the gas pedal linkage so I can get more
|> |cable action with less ankle action (I'm the guy with the
|fused right
|> |ankle).
|> |
|> |Bentley page 20.23 shows the relevant bits.
|> |
|> |Can someone tell me how the lower end of the Push Rod is
|captured in
|> |the upper hole of the Relay Lever?
|> |
|> |I have the cover off and am peering at the assembly and it
|just kind
|> |of looks like the end of the push rod is all kind of mashed and
|> |mooshed there. Can the two parts be easily separated or is it some
|> |kind of factory squeeze job?
|> |
|> |--
|> |Rocky J Squirrel
|> |'84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
|> |'74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano,
|> |Calif.) Bend, OR KG6RCR
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