Request for photos of 280SL Automatic Gas Pedal and Kickdown switch

[w113abudhabi]

Dear fellow W113 owners

To help understand better and overcome some current issues I would be most grateful if the owners of automatic 280sl vehicles would share photos of their accelerator pedal and the kickdown switch. Currently the two are not contacting on my car so I would like to see if their are any parts missing from either the top of my kickdown switch or the rear of my gas pedal.

Many thanks for all responses,

Pierre

[kampala]

Not great photos --- but you can see a working switch and profile of accelerator pedal. 

[w113abudhabi]

Thanks kampala. Those pics are really helpful.

[Madmerc]

salam wu alakum  ha bibi

[JamesL]

Thread resurrection alert...

My kickdown is working fine. As long as I exert a little "inboard" pressure on the pedal. On checking the alignment, it is the rod to the rear of the pedal that is engaging the kickdown, not the flat rear of the pedal.
My initial though was that I had something missing from the back of the pedal rod - eg a flat "button" that provided a bigger/flat surface to engage the kickdown. However, the picture above suggests that it is the "board" of the pedal that does that job

There is a little lateral play (inboard/outboard) at the upper end of the pedal, not much but that does allow the pedal to "miss" the kickdown.

Does that make sense? - and what can I do to fix it?

Thanks