Joy,

The metal rod which comes up from the floor bends to the left at a 90 degree angle at the top of the rod. That 90 degree bend clips into a slot on the backside of the gas pedal.

Ric

> Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 23:31:00 -0230
> From: jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU
> Subject: broken gas pedal
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> 
> So the latest in my never-ending saga of van problems - I got in to go
> somewhere today, and my gas pedal is broken.  The bottom end of the pedal,
> which apparently should be attached to something in the floor, is not
> attached to anything.  So I have no leverage to push on it, it just flops
> around.  It actually looks like the plastic at the bottom end should be able
> to bend flexibly when you push on the gas, but it has simply worn out and
> broken.
> 
> Has this happened to anyone before?  How do you fix it?
> 
> In the very short run, I think I can jerry-rig something by attaching a
> piece of some sort of slightly-pliable plastic to the pedal, and wedging it
> in the hole in the carpet through which the pedal used to go, so I can get
> my van somewhere besides where she's sitting right now.  But I think that
> will only be a very temporary fix.
> 
> Is this very weird, or a normal problem?  I've never heard of such a thing
> happening!
> 
> 
> 
> Joy

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