Michael, maybe you had the classic freezing of a tiny bit of water
within the accelerator cable conduit. This usually happens the first
time you push the pedal and I realize you had already driven some
distance, but I'm just saying.
Your linkage may be worn and needs replaced. I did 350K miles on my
first Syncro.....at 300K, the little teat/barb that keeps it all
together, under there, wore away enough that it would not stay
together any longer. At that time I had a parts van and was able to do
a quick swap. I just discussed this with a fellow Vanagonaut, and he
mentioned that he purchased all these bits, new, from VanCafe, though
I have not substantiated it yet. If it is available, new, I would do
it. This is one of those things that will make your life miserable,
I'm sure you know.

Miguel

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Rocket J Squirrel
<camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
>