pbcanney

A few weeks ago, while working 'topside' on my auto~manual conversion in my 81, I was trying to figure out what was wrong with my brake pedal, and why it sat 2 inches closer to the floor than the clutch pedal did.

Well, the problem was actually the clutch pedal was sitting too high in relation to the brake pedal.

There is a little rubber bumper that fits on the pedal housing to keep the clutch pedal (arm) from banging.

So if you have a really high clutch pedal (and I've seen many on ebay), this little thing is all of $3 (corvette central)






btw.. I did end up changing the booster / mc / mc brake lines because I dont ever want to have to, and the originals have served 110k miles

Durango_Boy

Nice job. What condition are your pedal return springs? They make pedal operation SO much nicer.

Jud Chapin

How long of a job was swapping the booster out?

pbcanney

Thanks

I bought all new hardware (seals, springs etc) from CC. (I was getting a box a week for a while... made for an unhappy wife) CC doesnt even have an image or description of the rubber bumper at the website, I ordered it with my fingers crossed.

pbcanney

underdash, It was about an hour to get it out using a variety of 3/8 extensions, a 3/8 ujoint and 9/16th deep socket. Probably would have been shorter without my back cramping up

oh.. take the driver seat out unless you're really really wirey

Jud Chapin

Thanks; how long for the reinstall?

pbcanney

Well, before I put the new one in, I chased the threads with a die to make sure I could spin the nuts down with my fingers then just broke out the tools to tighten them. bring some light!

it was all of 15 minutes

So the whole thing (mc/ feeder lines / booster) should be a Saturday afternooner

Jud Chapin

Thanks again!

pbcanney

one more thing..

buy a spare clip for the clevis pin and put it in your pocket when you're reinstalling .

trust me.. when the first one drops under you while you're lying there with pedals brushing against your eye lids, you'll be glad you have a spare in your pocket

Jud Chapin

I'll do it!

Rdavis

Make sure that you still have some free play in the pedal. you do not want the throwout bearing riding hard agianst the clutch fingers when the pedal is not being depressed. It will wear out a t/o bearing pretty fast.
I have been down that road before, with my 78 Z/28 that I did a 4 speed conversion on many years ago.

corvetero

Bringing up this to the table again...

Anybody knows how thick is the piece of rubber that holds the clutch pedal in the right place?