Vw Bug Throttle Cable Tube Installation

This technique can be applied to classic vw s including beetle bug type 3 knotch backs square back.

Vw bug throttle cable tube installation.

This is what the transmission side of the throttle cable tube looks like popping through the firewall tin note the gap in the rubber seal to prevent the tube from being covered. This is a pretty easy fix as the video shows. The accelerator cable passes through the guide tube and through the metal tube running through the fan shroud rearward to the carburetor where the barrel clamp cylindrical metal fitting see picture below on the end of the cable attaches to the bottom of the throttle lever. Chris vallone 51 282 views.

The guide tine might also be referred to as a throttle cable guide tube accelerator cable guide fan shroud guide or just guide tube. How to replace the throttle cable in a vw beetle. How to replace gas or accelerator pedal on vw beetle. Your throttle cable should be completely enclosed up until it pops out of the tube a few inches from the throttle lever on the carb.

This vw accelerator guide tube through fan shroud will fit all vw type 1 and upright based engines 1300 and larger. Thought it might be helpful to anybody with throttle issues on a vw. You just have to slide it in the tube and then find the other end under the car. Messing with the throttle control module on my 1999 vw new beetle gls.

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