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Accelerator pedal pin keeps coming out

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Purple Martin · 26 Apr 2006, 1:08 pm

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 ]

Yogie · 26 Apr 2006, 1:14 pm

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 · 26 Apr 2006, 1:27 pm

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

Doug Sweetman · 26 Apr 2006, 1:58 pm

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

1303Steve · 26 Apr 2006, 2:53 pm

Hi

Put a bolt through it.

Steve