Hi I bought a spring because I found out that there is supposed to be one on the car. My car when I bought it did not have one. How does the spring mount? It looks it hooks to the pedal rod. But how does it mount on the pedal?


Thank you,

Steve

Never mind I got it. Boy is that little spring stiff. I think my finger has a permanet indentation. I started to take the pedal and bracket off/ Mistake. Too hard to get at the linkage down in the console. I did get it back together, but lost one of the little retaining washers. Well one is better than none. WHAT a difference in the pedal with a spring!!!!!!! I always thought the accerlerator pedal lay out was bad. I was going to blame the engineers. Wow the pedal is up right.


Steve

There is no spring that goes on the accelerator pedal. No car I have seen in years has a spring on the pedal. Fiero certainly doesn't. Whatever idiot told you to put a spring on the pedal is grossly incompetant.

The only return spring used on any Fiero is on the TBI unit, or the trottle body of port injected engines. This is done so that there is never any slack in the cable. With a spring on the pedal, you now have major slack that has to be taken up before the throttle can even slightly hope to move.

If you are having pedal return problems... the throttle cable is likely bad or there are problems on the engine.

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ehhh.... never thought I'd be correcting theogre, but there most certainly is a spring on your gas pedal, though it doesn't help with throttle return. It is just to keep the pedal twisted in an upright position, if that makes sense. Go out to your Fiero, and with your hand, twist the plastic part of the gas pedal forward w/o actually pressing the gas, and you'll see what I mean.

Tyler

I def do not have a spring, and I just changed the throttle cable. My pedal bracket does not have provisions for a spring, nor am i sure where you would actually connect one on the pedal... With the cable disconnected the pedal falls to the floor.

Gravity does a pretty good job of keeping the pedal in a upright position since all the weight is on the lower end...

quote Originally posted by GT-X: Go out to your Fiero, and with your hand, twist the plastic part of the gas pedal forward w/o actually pressing the gas, and you'll see what I mean. Tyler

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My 84 pedal had a spring but the piece where you put your foot on was broke on one of the sides so it went sideways. I took the one out of may 87 parts car that had a spring and put it in. Works great!

Josh

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The Ogre is right regarding the throttle return spring. The spring on the throttle body or TBI unit is supposed to do that.

A side note: When I recently finished a 4cyl to V6 swap, I found that the throttle wouldn't return to the idle position. As a result, the engine would idle too fast. The fix was easy, loosen the throttle pedal assembly's mounting bolts about 1/4 turn. They were too tight, causing the pedal to stick.

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The spring of whatever mechanism they use down there is only to snap the pedal back into place--not the rod that its perched on ..Got 6 of them , they all have it. It has nothing to do with the throttle cable, this is only for the pedal, I think thats what the mix-up was...

I don't think Solotwo ever stated it was on the throttle cable. Just my 2 cents.
Edit: opps, thats what 3800superfast just said. Sorry.
Tom

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Yo dudes chill. I got it as I stated before. YES there is a spring in the gas Pedal! Wow what a difference. I read some of the archives and some one mentioned to take the pedal assembly off, that it was easier to get the spring on. Sooooooooo I started to take the assembly off. That is when I found out it is toooooooooooo hard to get at the cable to take off and put back on. I then put the assembly back on. I figured it was to much work. Then I just pushed extra hard and it snapped on the rod. Wow what a difference. I have to relearn how to drive my car.


Thanks to all!!

Steve

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