On 10/3/2009 11:32 AM Stephen Grisanti wrote:

> Same thing happened to me about a year ago on the city's six-lane main
> drag. [...]  Never felt anything suspicious leading up to it and never
> found a reason for the pushrod to have come loose and it hasn't happened
> again.  Various Vanagon parts just letting us know they're there, I reckon.

Yeah, that's probably as good an explanation as we can expect.

Because I checked out Karl's suggestion. The rivets have not come loose at
the front of the pedal, the thing has no side-to-side wiggleability. And I
cannot think of any way that the smooth flat plastic bottom of this
stability boot, the sole of which is a rectangle with rounded corners,
about 5'' wide and 13'' long, could have glommed onto the pedal and lifted
it off the pushrod.

Antigravity or something.

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