Tom ~ That happened to me too. The rivets had rusted enough to break loose.
I cut out maybe a 4x4x1/16 inch piece of aluminum drilled the holes and
re-riveted the pedal to the plate tucking it under the rug. That was years
ago. No trouble since.

John Meeks
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Stock 2.1 250K miles
Northern Michigan

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On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Tom Carchrae <tom@carchrae.net> wrote:

> I was not having a good van day, and to top it off, when pulling out of the
> gas station, the accelerator pedal didn't work.  On inspection, the pedal
> had come loose from the floor.
>
> The pedal looks like this:
>
>
> http://a248.e.akamai.net/origin-cdn.volusion.com/o42db.t5sus/v/vspfiles/photos/VWC-251-721-511-D-2.jpg
>
> On the floor, I found two metal pegs that poke into the two plastic holes
> on the end of the gas pedal.  However, I did not find anything else that
> would fix the pedal down.
>
> I found this picture, indicating some kind of rivet
>
> http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m218/tencentlife/van%20tech%20items/DSC01057.jpg
>
> So, I guess I am looking for two large rivets?
>
> I'm curious to know why I didn't find any rivets under the carpet -
> although there was a lot of crud under the carpet.  Perhaps someone just
> glued it in the past?...
>
> Tom
>