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Subject:Re: Accelerator cable
From:Frank Condelli
Date:Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:33:36 -0400

Not up here in the rust belt.  Only cutting it apart gets it apart.

Frank

On 2012-09-10, at 7:46 AM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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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