914Sixer
Jul 30 2008, 05:39 PM
I started taking a 74 apart. This is what I found for an improved version of a broken gas pedal. I laughed so hard I had tears. Then it hit me, this must have been a big mother if he need to extend the pedal to that length
Steve Snyder
Jul 30 2008, 06:43 PM
Is that a gate hinge I see?
MartyYeoman
Jul 30 2008, 06:45 PM
Looks like a Home Depot repair to me.
SLITS
Jul 30 2008, 07:51 PM
Trekkor did it.
bryanc
Jul 30 2008, 08:29 PM
I love redneck repairs. Some of them even work!
I have a parts car that had a heater valve made from a PVC Y pipe, some pieces of sheetmetal, and lots of JB weld. I dunno if it worked, but it made me feel like an archaeologist trying to figure out what it was for.
The same car had a clutch tube repair made from 1/4" steel. Probably 15 lbs of steel was in there. Plus the 7 or 8 lbs of welding stick.
LowGT
Jul 30 2008, 08:32 PM
My first 914 came with the door hinge gas pedal repair. My new 914 has a legit original gas pedal, and now it doesn't feel right. HA!
JPB
Jul 31 2008, 05:17 PM
Thats not a shade tree machanic job!!! That there repair has the old "back woods mechanics" written all over it.
Katmanken
Jul 31 2008, 07:45 PM
So that's where it went.....
Somebody stole my pedal....
It worked real gud and I was going to make a bunch of them to sell to you CSOB's, er... I mean fine gentlemen....
Ken
carr914
Jul 31 2008, 07:51 PM
So Bigfoot does really exist.
I once had a 57 Corvette and there had been a repair to the D.S front fender in METAL
T.C.
jt914-6
Aug 1 2008, 06:33 AM
I bought a 914 and the pedal bushings had gotten brake fluid on them and we all know what happens. Mashing the pedal down was no problem, but the bushings were so tight the previous owner had tied a piece of 12 ga. wire to it and to let the gas off you would pull on the wire to return to idle!!!!!!
Needless to say, the bushings/MC was changes quite quickly.
Root_Werks
Aug 1 2008, 10:49 AM
I would have used a hasp half instead of the gate hinge.
jimkelly
Aug 1 2008, 11:03 AM
i had one just like that in my car fro a year - i recently replaced it with a new peddle - what an improvement - find a nice used proper peddle.
KELTY360
Aug 1 2008, 01:32 PM
QUOTE(Root_Werks @ Aug 1 2008, 09:49 AM)
I would have used a hasp half instead of the gate hinge.
Seems like half-hasp solution to me.
computers4kids
Aug 1 2008, 01:54 PM
All the PO had to do was add a latch...and instant "cruise control!"
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