Can some kind soul outline the procedure to remove and replace the accelerator cable from a twin carbi late bus ('75). Cannot find it in my manual and have never attempted it before.
Cheers
In the worlds before Monkey primal chaos reigned. heaven sought order, but he pheonix can fly only when its feathers are grown. the 4 worlds formed again and yet again, as the endless aoens weild and passed. Time and the pure essence of heaven and the moisture of the earth all worked upon a certain rock old as creation. And it became mgically fertile. That first egg was named "Thought". Thathaga Buddha, the father Buddha, said with our thoughts we make the world. Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch and from it came a stone monkey! The nature of MONKEY WAS IREPRESSIBLE!!!!! !
Undo the back end, undo the front end, draw out the old cable.
Refit is reverse of removal.
It is that simple. My wife did ours a few years ago, and that was on the side of the road.
It is that simple... as long as the tube that the cable runs through is in good condition.
When I did mine, there was one place under the middle of the bus where the tube was partly crushed. I had to cut this section out with a hacksaw to allow the thing on the end of the cable to pass through. I re-joined the cut section with some vacuum hose and a couple of hose clamps to keep mud out of the tube.
I also had trouble where there was a bend in the tube near the gearbox: I had to slightly bend the thing on the end of the new cable to get it to go around the bend, and then straighten it once I got it fed all the way into the engine bay.
But don't let me put you off, it is something you can do yourself, so go for it!
1959 red & white Beetle
1975 Kombi camper
Cheers boys.. was a doddle.. learning something everyday. Now all I have to do is figure our why the accelerator pedal still sticks to the floor.. linkages all look fine, got me stuffed.
BTW Helbus, saw you screaming up Cantebury road yesterday in that unmistakable bus of yours.. like s**t off a chrome shovel it was!
[ Edited on 17-5-06 by soft notch ]
In the worlds before Monkey primal chaos reigned. heaven sought order, but he pheonix can fly only when its feathers are grown. the 4 worlds formed again and yet again, as the endless aoens weild and passed. Time and the pure essence of heaven and the moisture of the earth all worked upon a certain rock old as creation. And it became mgically fertile. That first egg was named "Thought". Thathaga Buddha, the father Buddha, said with our thoughts we make the world. Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch and from it came a stone monkey! The nature of MONKEY WAS IREPRESSIBLE!!!!! !
That wasn't me, that was the wife 😂 It's her bus.
soft notch, is the return spring there?
1959 red & white Beetle
1975 Kombi camper
the cable passes through the firewall, backing tin through a small bit of tin tube which over the 30 odd years of use and abuse will usually be loose and can sometimes have grooves worn in it about the thickness of the cable, two things happen the cable wears and freys and can also jam or be very slow on returning to idle
Return springs are all intact.. and linkage works perfectly when moved by hand...and while tube is loose cable moves freely. Have checked the conduit under the bus and there don't seem to be any dings that would restrict the cable. Spoke to a mechanic yesterday who is equally as baffled and suggested it may by the peddle mechanism (late type with the rod running along a tube on the floor).
In the worlds before Monkey primal chaos reigned. heaven sought order, but he pheonix can fly only when its feathers are grown. the 4 worlds formed again and yet again, as the endless aoens weild and passed. Time and the pure essence of heaven and the moisture of the earth all worked upon a certain rock old as creation. And it became mgically fertile. That first egg was named "Thought". Thathaga Buddha, the father Buddha, said with our thoughts we make the world. Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch and from it came a stone monkey! The nature of MONKEY WAS IREPRESSIBLE!!!!! !
If you unattach the cable at the pedal end, and remove the spring, can you move the pedal freely by hand? Or do you feel resistance in the pedal movement?
1959 red & white Beetle
1975 Kombi camper
There's resistence.. the pedal will stay in position rather than drop to the floor.
In the worlds before Monkey primal chaos reigned. heaven sought order, but he pheonix can fly only when its feathers are grown. the 4 worlds formed again and yet again, as the endless aoens weild and passed. Time and the pure essence of heaven and the moisture of the earth all worked upon a certain rock old as creation. And it became mgically fertile. That first egg was named "Thought". Thathaga Buddha, the father Buddha, said with our thoughts we make the world. Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch and from it came a stone monkey! The nature of MONKEY WAS IREPRESSIBLE!!!!! !
Sounds like your answer is there: crud and old dried grease in the pedal tube thing.
1959 red & white Beetle
1975 Kombi camper
