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Subject:Re: Accelerator cable
From:Dennis Haynes
Date:Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:46:53 -0400

There is a removable wire locking clip. Remove that little clip and it will
pop off.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Frank Condelli
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 5:55 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Accelerator cable

        If it's an automatic and the ball joint is rusted so that ball
sockert will NOT come off then it's gonna take you way more than an hour to
replace the cable !

On 2012-09-07, at 11:44 AM, Automatic digest processor
<LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> wrote:

> I don't know whether that cable was for an automatic or manual but
> last time I got from the dealer list was ~$40 and alldata says the job
> should take an hour.

Cheers,

Frank Condelli
Almonte, Ontario, Canada
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