Hydraulic Clutch setup
Hi,
I did the work on this weekend with a help from my friend.
It was pretty easy and I'll upload some pictures of my progress (sorry Englis isn't my native language so I might not know all the words for used tools/hardware.
The car is a Plymouth Valiant 69 with power breaks.
So first I made a mock up to get the basic setup and mesures. Then tried to find the sweet spot, trilled a hole in the pedal (1,6 inches from the pedal pivot point), cut off the return spring bracket and welded a 1.6 inch long thing (I don't know what to call it, you see it on the 2nd picture) where I trilled the hole (it has bolt thread inside it).
Next we moved to the car. First we installed the pedalst and tried to fit the bracket we made for the extre strenght to the correct position (this ment we had to cut off a littl peace of the bracket that holds the handbreak). Also we had to cut a peace from the bracket we made, to make it fit correct.
Then we marked up the place to make a hole, removed the pedals, cut the hole, adjusted it a bit to make the master cylinder fit and installed all the necessary parts (pedals, break master cylinder ect).
Here you can see, that I added the nut to the end of the bolt (right side)
breake and clutch pedal:
All in all two of the most difficult things are making the bracket for the clutch master push rod and finding the correct place to make the hole in the firewall.
I hope I can help some one with the same problem and make there job easyer.
If there is something that I did wrong and this will cause some problems in the futur, let me know.
Chris
Hi,
I did the work on this weekend with a help from my friend.
It was pretty easy and I'll upload some pictures of my progress (sorry Englis isn't my native language so I might not know all the words for used tools/hardware.
The car is a Plymouth Valiant 69 with power breaks.
So first I made a mock up to get the basic setup and mesures. Then tried to find the sweet spot, trilled a hole in the pedal (1,6 inches from the pedal pivot point), cut off the return spring bracket and welded a 1.6 inch long thing (I don't know what to call it, you see it on the 2nd picture) where I trilled the hole (it has bolt thread inside it).
Next we moved to the car. First we installed the pedalst and tried to fit the bracket we made for the extre strenght to the correct position (this ment we had to cut off a littl peace of the bracket that holds the handbreak). Also we had to cut a peace from the bracket we made, to make it fit correct.
Then we marked up the place to make a hole, removed the pedals, cut the hole, adjusted it a bit to make the master cylinder fit and installed all the necessary parts (pedals, break master cylinder ect).
Here you can see, that I added the nut to the end of the bolt (right side)
breake and clutch pedal:
All in all two of the most difficult things are making the bracket for the clutch master push rod and finding the correct place to make the hole in the firewall.
I hope I can help some one with the same problem and make there job easyer.
If there is something that I did wrong and this will cause some problems in the futur, let me know.
Chris
