No clutch pedal stop for 1975??

[RWebb]

Here is a post I copied at some point and saved. It was not from a recognized expert (or I'd have saved their name too). Does anybody know if it is true or not?

Are the 1975 cars supposed to have a pedal stop on the floorboard??


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The 1975/76 clutch setup is a weird combination which has no clutch pedal stop.

I've over-tensioned cables and (I think) even caused a premature failure of the throw out arm by simply adjusting my pedal to 1" to 1/2" freeplay without a pedal stop.

Now, I adjust to barely release at full pedal stroke, then tighten about 1 turn of the nut at the cable end by the lever and play with +/- 1/2 turn of the nut - just enough to get a clean clutch release plus a little extra. No problems with clutch arms or rapid cable deterioration with this method. The pedal has ~ 2" freeplay, maybe more...

[Peter Zimmermann]

If your pedal board has a short piece of black material (if you could see its cross-section it would be a "U" shape) glued to the horizontal cut at the top of the opening that the clutch arm passes through, then you don't have a pedal stop, that material is supposed to be the non-adjustable stop.

If your pedal board has two vertical slots, one on each side of the hole that the clutch arm passes through, then you should have a pedal stop and yours is missing.

If you have a small bolt with an allen wrench head, backed up by a flat washer, on each side of the hole through which the clutch pedal arm passes through, those are the adjusters for the pedal stop that you have.

I've seen cars without a pedal stop (intended by the factory), and if the board is warped it can certainly present problems.

[RWebb]

Thx Pete but that will not work - the tub is a '73. I should have mentioned that.

I am interested in what the 1975 transmission in my car -- with the bent clutch arm -- needs.

[Peter Zimmermann]

To obscure a question to trust my memory. You need someone on here that has an original '75 that can look at their car. There were cars built during that period that had no pedal stop but I can't remember specifically which ones. Sorry, too many years have passed, I probably haven't touched one of those cars in 20 years!