The infamous clamshell gas pedal failure

Andrew Duane USG duane at hunch.zk3.dec.com
Mon Jul 9 17:23:22 EDT 2001


Hairy green toads from Mars made Sean Ford say:

> Before I go and purchase a new clamshell pedal, with it's inherent
> design flaws, I was wondering if there was any reason why I couldn't
> simply purchase an aftermarket pedal? Surely, there has to be a lister
> who has thrown their pedal cover away and refit some lovely drilled
> aluminum number in it's place. Opinions?

Why even bother?

When mine fell off, I just left it that way. By the second
day I couldn't even tell the difference. The car has had 175K
miles put on it since then.

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Andrew L. Duane (JOT-7)			duane at zk3.dec.com
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