S Sittservl (Ssittservl@aol.com) said on the date of 10/12/00 4:14 PM

>When my accelerator cable went bad a couple of years ago,
>the shop that worked on it said that it would take something like
>a month to order a new one.  So, they made one themselves by
>running some sort of wire cable through a piece of fuel hose.

     Obviously you live in a temperate clime.  Those of us prone to
freezing know that this is a certain recipie for the kind of
stuck-at-full-throttle disaster that a frozen accelerator cable can cause.

     If you haven't already, replace yours with a newer one, as they have
been re-designed with a teflon-coated cable that is much less prone to
binding and freezing as the old ones.

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Bob O'Shaughnessy,         Columbus, OH
vanagon@columbus.rr.com
99 A3 Jetta TDI
85GL with basic Westy interior
74 Bus (Dad's)
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