[KTL]

The clutch pedal upright can indeed bend quite easy. I had a G50 pedal assembly someone wanted to buy from me. He looked at the picture and asked if the clutch pedal was bent. Didn't seem like it to me, but I couldn't be sure since the pedal cluster wasn't installed in the car- I too had bought it used "loose" from a car.

So I compared the pedal cluster to the one in my '87 and sure enough the pedal upright was bent. Put it in my wimpy hobby bench vise (not the big honkin bad boy Wilton on my workbench) and I was EASILY able to bend the clutch pedal in the direction I wanted to. I'm a fairly strong guy for my size (165 lbs- is that a middleweight?), but i'm no Hercules by any means. I only had to lean on the pedal with a mild amount of my body weight to bend the pedal. I thought I was gonna have to really lean on that sucker to bend it straight. Nope......