Accelerator pedal pin keeps coming out

913 posts · joined Feb 2003 · 26 Apr 2006, 1:08 pm

#480587

The accelerator pedal pin keeps coming out of the hinge at the bottom of the pedal in my 1959 bug. What can I do to keep it in place?

[ Edited on 26-4-06 by Purple Martin ]

1959 red & white Beetle
1975 Kombi camper

Yogie Moderator Custom Title Time!

1,608 posts · joined Jun 2003 · 26 Apr 2006, 1:14 pm

#480590

You can buy a new kit for the later beetles but I am not sure about the early ones though. With mine, there is a wire that wraps around the pin and there is a little cutout that it sits in. This helps to keep it in but you can also crimp the brackets on the floorpan a bit to tighten around the pin once it is in position.

Good luck.

Yogie

vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 Apr 2006, 1:27 pm

#480596

do u have the return spring on the pin its pushes the pedal into position

I read it on FACEBOOK so it must be true

http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=91278&page=1#pid848630

http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=63561&page=1#pid624099

http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=4832&page=1#pid452603

http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=60650&page=1#pid574409

Doug Sweetman Nil Bastardo Carborundum

2,128 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 26 Apr 2006, 1:58 pm

#480611

yes, return spring is a neccessity, stops the accel pedal flopping back onto your foot....

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 Apr 2006, 2:53 pm

#480620

Hi

Put a bolt through it.

Steve