My gas pedal has become a little 'touchy' lately.  Manual tranny with an
inline motor.  I have checked and lubricated (with the SA Besto spray lube
2000 product I like) the portion of my accelerator linkage in the engine
compartment and above the tranny.  Also, I've lubed the pedal and the
linkage above the spare tire carrier.  Operating that portion of the system
by hand, it feels perfectly smooth..and in the past it has been quite
satisfactory.  I changed nothing with that system when I recently 'revised'
my motor.

   When coming off 'no throttle' at slower speeds in traffic, it is
somewhat difficult to feed in just a little throttle slowly and evenly....I
carefully depress the accelerator pedal but it seems to 'stick' a bit and
then 'release' and cause more  sudden throttle than I would like.  This is
no problem in most situations, but when 'plonking around' a parking lot or
inching ahead in traffic, it is irritating to be unable to smoothly add just
a little throttle in my lower gears without the van wanting to 'jump
ahead...a little'  I have taken to 'slipping the clutch' to control it's
tendency to jump/lag/jump.....I'm thinking I might need a new accelerator
cable at the worst, or possibly just to lubricate my current one.

   So, I've been at both ends of the system, and squirted the linkages but
where do I get "into" the accelerator cable housings?  Can someone guide me
here, if there is any 'tricks' to this process?  I want to get this done
before we have our first snow (maybe very soon here in the Pac. NW)..The
Vanagon I own is difficult enough to keep traction with without having a
jerky accelertor linkage to contend with.

  Thanks,  Don Hanson