the bent clutch pedal

[DoreSlamR]

Morning all

Just thought i'd write about my clutch pedal, last week it decided to bend into some god-awful shape, where it bent was the pin that the pedal pivots on. so i was able to get the ute home safely. Lucky my old man taught me how to change gears without a clutch! (not really reccomended for anything smaller than a road-ranger) :togo:


So i've parked it up and until last night its been sitting there due to my lack of mechanical knowledge and motivation. I didnt want to start pulling stuff out for fear of it not going back in. I finally managed to convince a mechanic mate of mine to fix it for me and in the space of two and a half hours he had it out, realised this isnt the first time its been bent and discovered how dodgy the fix up job was, cleaned it up and welded it properly and back in the ute! All for the price of a bottle of Jack Daniels! :baby bott

after all that i'm suprised at how flimsy the set up is on such a critical area.
you'd think it'd be well reinforced.

anyway..

have a great day guys!

[EvilChief]

very common issue, been covered plenty of times before

[dannyxm]

my old girl snapped the clutch pedal on her EB, then again on her EF XR6
Far to common

[Sledgehammer]

Originally Posted by EvilChief

very common issue, been covered plenty of times before

yep cars designed for majority autos suffer with weak firewalls..... you find you may need a pedal box, and have to weld the firewall too.

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by DoreSlamR

Lucky my old man taught me how to change gears without a clutch! (not really reccomended for anything smaller than a road-ranger) :togo:

You did well. It's NOT easy changing a synchro box without the clutch.

[Lukeyson]

Originally Posted by GasOLane

You did well. It's NOT easy changing a synchro box without the clutch.

damn right, i had to do it in my XR8 ute just for a simple 25km trip a while ago when the clutch pedal went screwy too. No where near as easy as it was to do it in my old Laser SR2 tho