I pulled the pedal cluster from my donor car today. After spending a some time under the dash of a B4 Passat learning which muscles I haven't used in a while, I am not terribly excited about repeating a similar feat in the van. I've been looking at different ways that people have done the pedal potentiometer, and I'm offering up an idea for criticism.
Because the spring is inside the potentiometer assembly, it will operate the pedal properly independent of where it is installed. There's a bracket that the coolant reservoir mounts to directly adjacent to the exit point of the gasser throttle cable exit point on the firewall. Can anyone think of downsides to mounting the potentiometer there, cutting the throttle cable and looping it back on itself to make a loop?
I was thinking that I could bolt the cable to itself using very small U-shaped clamps, which would have the added benefit of pedal position adjustment.
There is the engine heat to consider, as well as the potential for some bonehead to spill water out when filling up the coolant. I think a suitable debris shield would probably be very easy to make for that location, though.
Thoughts?