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Accelerator pedal pin keeps coming out
Purple Martin - April 26th, 2006 at 01:08 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 - April 26th, 2006 at 01:14 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 - April 26th, 2006 at 01:27 PM

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


Doug Sweetman - April 26th, 2006 at 01:58 PM

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


1303Steve - April 26th, 2006 at 02:53 PM

Hi

Put a bolt through it.

Steve