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Hi All

While attempting to fit an lpg breather pipe I managed to knock off what ever holds the spring on to the accelerator cable. Is it a washer clip or a circlip that would have held it on? The manual suggests a circlip but I can't work out how it would keep the spring in place .Your help would be much appreciated.

A picture would help

Oldiebut goodie wrote:

itchyfeet wrote:We all have the option of not clicking the post reply button if we don't see the necessary info

Yes your right but I'm trying to help, i'm not complaining

this is the standard carb setup but I think Autos often have a 2E4 is the throttle diffeent from this?




or perhaps you mean this...

mine's an auto just took a pic ( if it works !)



there you go !

Washer and e-clip is the usual method for this type of thing. A c-clip, e-clip or circlip would all suffice there.

Thanks for your replies. I couldn't get the van home yesterday so couldn't get photos. It's most like the last photo but the spring sits over a pin which has a groove but nothing else. Couldn't get to the van today but will try and get the circlip fitted tomorrow fingers crossed. Once again thanks for your efforts.

E D I T: the Brickwerks pipe is perfect. It seems that the " VW specialist " garage had forced the wrong pipe on thus fouling the accelerator

can we have a pic please when you are done for others to see, always helpful to see different variations

Probably not a lot of point now I'm afraid, The garage couldn't get the c clip to stay on because the spring was too strong. The eventually dismantled the accelerator and installed a non standard spring. That bodged pipe ended up costing me over £100!

Was a close fitting washer fitted first? - without this it would not hold. Not exactly a garage job!

Let's have a pic anyway if you can as I'm sure somebody else will end up doing the same and it would be good to see what works as a fix
Think of it as helping others in future