it's common that the ball pivot at the top of the auto trans lever ..
where the throttle cable connects to that ball there..
that you can barely see up on in there ..
it's common that that cable ball pivot is  rusted and has never been lubed
..
sometimes they're really badly rusted .
it's something that should be checked on every auto trans vanagon.

more and more, every day, I see spots on vanagons  like that, that have
never been lubed since they assembled it in germany 20 + years ago.
 it's as if people didn't understand tires need air in them ..that's how
many many spots on these babies have never been lubed.   A good spray
synthetic grease ...my my that is so rewarding to spray on a dry sqeuaky
mechanism.  Someday I'll post my list of litteraly hundreds of spots on
vanagons that need 'some lube once in a while' that are almost never done,
not based on all the vans I see anyway.

Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: Stuck accelerator at throttle body

> At 01:50 PM 7/26/2010 Monday, Cecil Eastman wrote:
>>1.  Am I correct that the springs are the problem or is there
>>something else I should be checking?
>
> Go down to the other end of the solid rod, where it connects to the
> transmission (it's the kick-down linkage).  Everything down there has
> to be moving freely.  I'll bet a dollar against a plugged nickel
> that's where the trouble is.
>
> Yours,
> David.