Thanks, Ric, but that isn't what is broken.  The rod is attached to the
pedal.  The pedal is no longer attached to the floor (or whatever it was
attached to) at the "heel" rather than the "toe" end of the pedal.

Anyone else have any suggestions?

Joy

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Richard Golen <rgolen@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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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