4000Q throttle linkage
06-03-2007, 10:26 PM
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Re: 4000Q throttle linkage
I like ingenuity! 
"miguelito" <migo_de_bajo@charter.not> wrote in message
news:migo_de_bajo-FEC465.19572403062007@news.charter.net...
> In article <XBF8i.5817$u56.190@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net>,
> "dave AKA vwdoc1" <vwdoc1@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That piece will be made to look like an empty spool of thread if it looks
>> like my '83 Audi 4000S.
>
> Hey dave. Thanks for the reply. Well, me being the impetuous type and it
> being Sunday afternoon, I decided to wing it. I bopped down to the
> hardware store and was able to put together a fix for 65 cents! I found
> a plastic end cap just the right size to fit the id of the ring on the
> pedal, a rubber grommet that slipped inside the end cap, and another
> slightly smaller grommet that would just slip over the flange on the
> cable end. I assembled everything with silicon adhesive and popped it
> together. I lost one the clips that hold the pedal pivot in place during
> reinstallation. I substituted with circlage wire. Worked so well I used
> it on both ends!
"miguelito" <migo_de_bajo@charter.not> wrote in message
news:migo_de_bajo-FEC465.19572403062007@news.charter.net...
> In article <XBF8i.5817$u56.190@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net>,
> "dave AKA vwdoc1" <vwdoc1@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That piece will be made to look like an empty spool of thread if it looks
>> like my '83 Audi 4000S.
>
> Hey dave. Thanks for the reply. Well, me being the impetuous type and it
> being Sunday afternoon, I decided to wing it. I bopped down to the
> hardware store and was able to put together a fix for 65 cents! I found
> a plastic end cap just the right size to fit the id of the ring on the
> pedal, a rubber grommet that slipped inside the end cap, and another
> slightly smaller grommet that would just slip over the flange on the
> cable end. I assembled everything with silicon adhesive and popped it
> together. I lost one the clips that hold the pedal pivot in place during
> reinstallation. I substituted with circlage wire. Worked so well I used
> it on both ends!
06-03-2007, 10:26 PM
#12
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Re: 4000Q throttle linkage
I like ingenuity!
"miguelito" <migo_de_bajo@charter.not> wrote in message
news:migo_de_bajo-FEC465.19572403062007@news.charter.net...
> In article <XBF8i.5817$u56.190@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net>,
> "dave AKA vwdoc1" <vwdoc1@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That piece will be made to look like an empty spool of thread if it looks
>> like my '83 Audi 4000S.
>
> Hey dave. Thanks for the reply. Well, me being the impetuous type and it
> being Sunday afternoon, I decided to wing it. I bopped down to the
> hardware store and was able to put together a fix for 65 cents! I found
> a plastic end cap just the right size to fit the id of the ring on the
> pedal, a rubber grommet that slipped inside the end cap, and another
> slightly smaller grommet that would just slip over the flange on the
> cable end. I assembled everything with silicon adhesive and popped it
> together. I lost one the clips that hold the pedal pivot in place during
> reinstallation. I substituted with circlage wire. Worked so well I used
> it on both ends!
"miguelito" <migo_de_bajo@charter.not> wrote in message
news:migo_de_bajo-FEC465.19572403062007@news.charter.net...
> In article <XBF8i.5817$u56.190@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net>,
> "dave AKA vwdoc1" <vwdoc1@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That piece will be made to look like an empty spool of thread if it looks
>> like my '83 Audi 4000S.
>
> Hey dave. Thanks for the reply. Well, me being the impetuous type and it
> being Sunday afternoon, I decided to wing it. I bopped down to the
> hardware store and was able to put together a fix for 65 cents! I found
> a plastic end cap just the right size to fit the id of the ring on the
> pedal, a rubber grommet that slipped inside the end cap, and another
> slightly smaller grommet that would just slip over the flange on the
> cable end. I assembled everything with silicon adhesive and popped it
> together. I lost one the clips that hold the pedal pivot in place during
> reinstallation. I substituted with circlage wire. Worked so well I used
> it on both ends!
06-03-2007, 10:26 PM
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Re: 4000Q throttle linkage
I like ingenuity!
"miguelito" <migo_de_bajo@charter.not> wrote in message
news:migo_de_bajo-FEC465.19572403062007@news.charter.net...
> In article <XBF8i.5817$u56.190@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net>,
> "dave AKA vwdoc1" <vwdoc1@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That piece will be made to look like an empty spool of thread if it looks
>> like my '83 Audi 4000S.
>
> Hey dave. Thanks for the reply. Well, me being the impetuous type and it
> being Sunday afternoon, I decided to wing it. I bopped down to the
> hardware store and was able to put together a fix for 65 cents! I found
> a plastic end cap just the right size to fit the id of the ring on the
> pedal, a rubber grommet that slipped inside the end cap, and another
> slightly smaller grommet that would just slip over the flange on the
> cable end. I assembled everything with silicon adhesive and popped it
> together. I lost one the clips that hold the pedal pivot in place during
> reinstallation. I substituted with circlage wire. Worked so well I used
> it on both ends!
"miguelito" <migo_de_bajo@charter.not> wrote in message
news:migo_de_bajo-FEC465.19572403062007@news.charter.net...
> In article <XBF8i.5817$u56.190@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net>,
> "dave AKA vwdoc1" <vwdoc1@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That piece will be made to look like an empty spool of thread if it looks
>> like my '83 Audi 4000S.
>
> Hey dave. Thanks for the reply. Well, me being the impetuous type and it
> being Sunday afternoon, I decided to wing it. I bopped down to the
> hardware store and was able to put together a fix for 65 cents! I found
> a plastic end cap just the right size to fit the id of the ring on the
> pedal, a rubber grommet that slipped inside the end cap, and another
> slightly smaller grommet that would just slip over the flange on the
> cable end. I assembled everything with silicon adhesive and popped it
> together. I lost one the clips that hold the pedal pivot in place during
> reinstallation. I substituted with circlage wire. Worked so well I used
> it on both ends!
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