Help with broken Gas Pedal, 200Q and UrS6.

[Franco Barber]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 06:52:12PM -0400, Larry C Leung wrote:
> The plastic part of the gas pedal has broken off of the metal pedal base.
> It is
> normally spring loaded, and it has broken off at the lame plastic "hinge"
> at 
> the bottom of the pedal assy. Long term repair is replace the pedal assy
> (not that I've ever seen a replacement plastic part) but I'm looking for
> a
> short term fix. Anyone know of an adhesive or suggest a possible one,
> that could potentially adhere the plastic part of the pedal to the metal
> part?

The fix that I have often heard talked about, and that I myself have
done on my two cars, is to use a couple sheet metal screws to hold the
upper movable piece to the lower fixed piece.

I threw together this web page to show you what I am talking about:

http://elektro.cmhnet.org/~feb/gaspedal/


Franco


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