Gas Pedal

Is there an easy way to grease a gas pedal? Background: Car was built in 2000 - Vintage Speedster. It has about 1600 miles on it. Runs phenomenal, but gas pedal does not seem smooth when pushing it. Almost like it needs a good greasing or some wd40 or something? Is this normal or is there anything I can do to loosen that up a bit?

Check for the S' end on the cable at the pedal rubbing against the carpet

Before Ed and Dale beat me to the punch! Pedal mods.

Easy to add grease fitting to assembly for the clutch and brake pedals.

http://www.tdreplica.com/FORUM/forum_posts.asp?TID=2022&PN=4

Todd.... Check visually as much of the cable as you can.... My Spyder had the same problem and it turned out to be a missing fan housing tube, and the cable was trying to saw through the sheet metal... ( screwed the cable up, required replacing the cable. )

Might also be a mis positioned flex shield (bowden tube?) between the engine and the chasis... Just my .02 Good luck.

OK, that's gotta be a first.

You guys know I own a VW based TD replica. I hang out over here too, because I know a lot of ya'll and there is such great VW/Porsche knowledge here!

I've, uh, "borrowed" a lot of tech tips and shared them with the TD owners. But this is the first time I've ever seen a post from the tdreplica.com forum referenced at SOG!

Definitely not pay back for all I've learned here....but still nice to see the info sharing go both ways!

Start at one end and work towards the other, best way to do it right.

Peal the pedal pad away and check the pedal hinge and motion, then look at where the pedal engages the cable and how the cable enters the tube. Ought to be smooth and tight with no side to side movement.

Spray the pedal hinge with PB Blaster, then white lithium. Pump some white lithium down the throttle tube as well.

Walk around to the back end and pump the throttle tube full of white lithium, look underneath to check for any grease making it out of the tube or joints and fix 'em/secure them as needed.

Hit the carb linkage with carb cleaner, PB Blaster, and a smidge of white lithium as well.

If nothing's messed up or missing, you ought to be good to go for another five years. By then you'll have lost interest in the ride.

Luck,

TC

TC....You have given me good advice on this forum, so I respect your knowledge..... My personal experience with "white lithium grease" is that it causes about as much trouble as it cures.... I fought the rear hatch release latches on my Spyder for five years, before I discovered that they worked better without any lube at all....When it dried out the white stuff gunked up the workings... Just my .02

I had a similar problem and found that the curve on the back of the pedal was not on the wheel. That cause some alignment issue and once corrected it was correct.

No sweat, if not lithium, then another grease that comes in an aerosol can.

The bus shop where I worked used lithium exclusively and I just got used to doing the same. I guess that it can gunk up like any semi-paste grease, but it stays kinda nice even in the cold, which a lot of them don't.

Anyway, use what you like, follow the front to back check and things ought to be in good shape by the time you shut the deck lid.

TC

thanks everyone!