Throttle pedal has gone sticky again

[Molecular--Bob]

While i am putting the zetec in i have been doing various other jobs as i have gone on, and have found that my throttle pedal is sticking again. Now on my 3rd bush in 3 years, and giving serious thought to fitting some form of bearing, even if this involves getting some housings welded onto the old pedal to hold the bearings.

 

Is this a good idea?

[elie boone]

If oxidation is the cause, you better replace the bronze bush with a teflon one, much easy'er than re engeneering the pedal

[Jason Plato]

why are you alone having this issue ?

 

there must be something wrong with your bush (phnaar phnaar) or the chassis shirley ?

 

dj

[Molecular--Bob]

Teflon sounds good.

 

The car lives outside, which i think doesn't help, and i suspect the root cause may be some damage to the inner face of the pedal pivot bore as the first replacement bush had a bit of surface damage that i didnt spot until i had "persuaded" it into the pedal. I cleaned it all up with emmery paper, but i think the fit is a bit out, allowing crud to get in.

[Mick Day]

Quoting Dave Jackson: 

there must be something wrong with your bush (phnaar phnaar) or the chassis shirley ?dj

Don't you mean Shirley Bassey?

[shn7]

Have you generously applied copper grease when fitting the bush in the past? I found mine had siezed recently but it looked like it had been dry fitted. Having cleaned and polished it and the pedal then re-assembled with said grease it's much nicer to use and I'm hoping will not see the corrosion come back.