Those who know me know that I am the worst when it comes to monetizing anything :-)

What would be great is a kindly old millionaire vanagon owner who will keep me on retainer just to be amused by the s**t I come up with.

Alistair

> On Sep 6, 2016, at 2:04 PM, OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
> 
>        Sweet ~ How Many $s are they going to be ~
> 
> 
>> On 6 Sep , 2016, at 2:41 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
>> 
>> This needed doing. Thanks.
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:28 PM Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I don't know about the rest of you, but for all the time I've  owned a
>>> vanagon the gas pedal has bugged me. It just never felt wide enough. The
>>> left side of my foot would be hangin off the side of the pedal. No room to
>>> shift foot over to the right. And for the last few months I've noticed that
>>> my pedal felt loose and wobbly underfoot.
>>> 
>>> Well it turned out the plastic hinge was tearing. I have a spare pedal in
>>> good shape but I thought I'd try making a better one .
>>> 
>>> Made a couple of prototypes, tried one, modified it, and it I think it
>>> really does feel better. More of my foot supported, no interference of foot
>>> and brake pedal ( haven't tried rolling foot type of heel and toe but it
>>> looks like it will be possible).
>>> 
>>> Anyway, for a rough try the pedal works well.
>>> 
>>> Pics and text here
>>> 
>>> 
>>> https://shufti.wordpress.com/2016/09/05/vanagon-fooling-around-with-gas-pedals/
>>> 
>>> Alistair
>>> 
>>> PS I installed the pedal with threaded inserts into the floor instead of
>>> pop rivets. Didn't take much to open the existing holes enough to install
>>> 10-24 inserts.