Re: Stiff accelerator pedal

["Ewan Hopkins" <ewanhopkins@hotmail.com>]

Take the accelerator cable off, hang it up and squirt WD40 down between the
cable and the sleeve.  Leave it to hang for a while and that should free it
up.   This assumes that your cable is the problem.  Could be that the
throttle action on the carburettor or throttle body, if it is FI, is stiff.

Cheers,

Ewan
'85 2.0 Storm
'86 1.8 GT

- -----Original Message-----
From: EGJ123@aol.com <EGJ123@aol.com>
To: scirocco-L@scirocco.org <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
Date: 27 October 1998 22:07
Subject: Stiff accelerator pedal


>Hi everyone,
>can anyone possibly suggest a remedy for the following:
>the accelerator pedal on my '88 GTX is *very* stiff, makes it tricky to
drive
>smoothly in traffic.  Me and my dad have had a look at it, we've tried
taking
>a winding off the throttle return spring, but that makes the throttle too
>loose, ie, you put your foot down, and the car keeps accelerating, even
when
>you've taken your foot off the gas.  So that idea was scrapped.  Is there
any
>way around this problem other than buying a new throttle cable?
>TIA,
>Jamie
>http://members.aol.com/egj123
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