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Accelerator to the floor?

Hi everyone, got a quick question for you.

I'm driving this morning and going down the road my accelerator pedal goes to the floor! I've got it home now thanks to having a truck and towing it, but none of my VW books have any quick fixes. or any fixes at all for that matter. I believe that the accelerator cable has come loose, and i can see it sticking through a small hole in the thing-a-ma-bob that the pedal itself is on top of. Sorry, but i dont know the technical term for it =) Any help would be appreciated, and I'm pretty sure this is just an easy fix with a screwdriver, but I have no idea how to do it =P being in a small corner around all those other pedals doesnt help either =)

Thanks a bunch, Aaron

Reply to
coevans
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Take a look at the left side of the carb and see if the cable is attached to the throttle lever. It it **is** attached and it **is** attached at the pedal end, then it is broken.

Post back with what you find and PLZ the year of whatever it is...

Speedy Jim

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Speedy Jim

Reply to
Jeff Rew

...this happens to me all the time....regardless of what I drive...

=-))

...Gareth

Reply to
Gary Tateosian

I got a 'bulletproof' throttle cable from aircooled.net. It is about 4 times t5hicker than the stock cable and is guaranteed not to break. It is a hassle when you go to remove the carb though because of they way the end is but who cares about that?

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Sleepy Joe

On 29 Jun 2004 07:08:42 -0700, snipped-for-privacy@msn.com (Sleepy Joe) ran around screaming and yelling:

i have the same cable....i soldered the =end of the cable to make it more like the "stock" piece....and to also keep it from unraveling and eventually becoming non-reusable.. JT

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Joey Tribiani

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