I was on the freeway today when suddenly, with a gentle *thunk*, the accelerator pushed back at me, and I found that I could only depress it about 1/2" before meeting strong resistance. I pulled off to a surface street and found that the little rubber bit that connects to the throttle linkage had come off (photo #1, here's what it should look like). The hinge here is made from molded rubber, same as the rest of it, and I guess it just decided it was tired of holding on.

I figured I could drive without the pedal at all, by just pushing on the throttle linkage, but that seemed sketchy. I could also push the pedal hard enough and it would work, but I was worried about it getting hung up in some rubber bit or other and sticking open.

So I made a new hinge from a framing nail, and wired it back together (#2). I put about 30 miles on it since then, and it works perfectly.

It's not permanent; I'm ordering a new one from Phil.

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2003 E320 wagon, ~80k, "Sputnik"
1987 300 SDL, ~160k, "The Pimp Daddy" (sold April 2010)
1984 300 TD, ~200k, "Das Boot" (Demised March 2008)

lol, Forced? want to chime in on your shoestring waterpump belt

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Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

As long as they would add one additional commandment for you to keep thy religion to thyself.
George Carlin (Wonder where he is now..)

1981 240d (engine donor 1983 240d) recently rebuilt engine hurray! - No more.. fought a tree and the tree won.

pearl black 1983 240d 4speed (Converted!@$$%) atleast the tranny was rebuilt.

I've found that the accelerator pedal is common to many chassis.

The W126 will interchange with the W115/W114 and the W123 at least, there may be others.

There is also an early version and a late version.

Early has a gimbal rod attachment, later uses the plastic hinge.

Jim

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14 E250 BlueTEC black. 45k miles
95 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 66k miles
94 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 152k miles
85 300TD 4 spd man, euro bumpers and lights, 15" Pentas dark blue 274k miles