Hello,

Just got back from a 4500 mile road trip in my vanagon. Haven't changed
the oil yet! EEKS! I hope Mobil 1 synthetic is good for that long. Well
anyways, the trip was good. Me and a friend drove from San Diego, CA up
to Banff in Canada, then crossed over through canada to the west coast to
vancouver, and then came down the coast back home. We hit most of the
places on the route that we took.

There was one unfortunate thing, the clutch
went out, not the whole clutch, the throw out bearing somehow fell off
the swing and managed to seize itself on the guide shaft, melting the
plastic inner ring. It was weird, I applied the clutch, it went down all
the way reallly easy and then I let it up and then when I tried to push
it down again it stopped still after about an inch of travel! Oh well, we
were in pocatello, idaho/utah? and luckily there was one shop intown that
fixed wb vans. Costed me $262 for a new pplate, disc and bearing and the
labor to install, oh yeah a few of those bolts that hold the cvs to the
output shaft stripped and I had to replace those too.

Anyways on to my problem, the gas pedal seems to be sticky and it takes a
bit of effort to apply initially, is there a way to lube it or is there a
place where itis binding, I haven't looked yet. Please let me know any
possible places where this can happen from people who have had problems
before.

Thanks,

Joe