Accelerator pedal not coming off
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Drifting
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Accelerator pedal not coming off
From the FSM, it looks like you just remove two nuts and the gas pedal comes right off. I removed those two nuts and the pedal will not move. What is the trick?
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Naw, most of us get only two nuts.
The pedal tends to stick to or under the rubber firewall shield. Be careful prying it or you may snap the plastic pedistal (Unless that's why you're doing this in the first place).
The pedal tends to stick to or under the rubber firewall shield. Be careful prying it or you may snap the plastic pedistal (Unless that's why you're doing this in the first place).
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Drifting
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I got it, it turns out you just have to be really rough with it to get it off those studs, grabbing the the pedal arm above the mount and just wrestling it. Thanks.
The reason I am doing this is to get a better look at the "hinge" part of the pedal and to try jamming nails and stuff between the hinged and unhinged parts to get it to stop hinging. It would be a lot easier to experiment with the pedal all the way out of the car, so while I'm here, I'll ask: How do you unhook the cable from the top? Is there a slot I'm not seeing that the cable slides through?
The reason I am doing this is to get a better look at the "hinge" part of the pedal and to try jamming nails and stuff between the hinged and unhinged parts to get it to stop hinging. It would be a lot easier to experiment with the pedal all the way out of the car, so while I'm here, I'll ask: How do you unhook the cable from the top? Is there a slot I'm not seeing that the cable slides through?
Last edited by LouisvilleLT4; Jan 26, 2008 at 06:31 PM.
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That's probably the best idea, as it will also motivate me to finally mop up the inch of water that's been sitting on my floorboards for a week (weatherstrip wasn't seated in the retainers quite right). I just about froze last night from trying to work on this with everything all wet.
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Probably didn't need to remove the seat, but I got that cable off by laying back and reaching up. On the backside of the pedal where the cable retainer is, you have to pinch a couple of locking tabs for the retainer to release itself through the front, and then you just lift the cable out through a slot in the top.
I ended up fabbing up a little metal rod to jam underneath the pedal rod (against and parallel to the flat pedal). There is now almost no of the undesired "hinge" movement and my throttle position is now infinitely more predictable with respect to what I feel with my foot.
I ended up fabbing up a little metal rod to jam underneath the pedal rod (against and parallel to the flat pedal). There is now almost no of the undesired "hinge" movement and my throttle position is now infinitely more predictable with respect to what I feel with my foot.
