What is the gas pedal actually supposed to attach to at the bottom end?  All
I can see from poking around is that it goes into a hole in the carpet.  The
carpet is glued to the pad under it, which is glued to the floor - without
pulling all of that up (and probably destroying the pad in the process), I
can't see what is under there.  Aside from a LOT of dirt from years of my
muddy shoes being down there.

Joy

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:44 PM, craig cowan <phishman068@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've heard of it happening.
> The "fix" for good would be to use the gas pedal off an automatic vanagon.
> It's different, reinforced with metal and i believe the pivot point is
> reinforced as well. I still don't understand why VW thought that automatic
> drivers were more likely to really romp on the pedal, but they definitely
> made it stronger (I assume due to the additional resistance on the automatic
> throttle linkage/transmission linkage setup).
>
> -Craig
> '85GL turned WESTY
> Turned BOSTIG
>
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
>