Help with a G50 clutch pedal position

[Tigrah]

Hi all,

I'm having an interesting discussion in an Aussie forum regarding LHD pedal boxes. My experience was that they were rather awful - the clutch sat right up against the wheel well/dead man's pedal.

It seems that my experience may be the exception, rather than the rule.

I've attached photos below of the offending pedal box (from an 88 G50 which belongs to a friend of mine in Virginia). You can see from the bottom photo and the carpet wear that this isn't an ideal setup.

Any clues as to what is going on here? Why such a weird offset? Could it be the wheel well itself, although it looks to be metal under the carpet wear?





TIA

[69-912-swt]

Is this a Targa ?? Carpet looks just like mine !!!

[Tigrah]

Yep, a Guards Red targa.

So the carpet looks like yours, but how about the pedal setup?

[rsscotty]

Looks like the clutch pedal is angled to the left. I have seen bent pedal arms that go up to the pedal pad.

[Chuck.H]

On my G50 car, the round shaft that the clutch and brake attach to split down the middle at the 250k mile mark - but it didn't break! I drove it like this for a few months until I tore down the pedal box and got a new shaft (hard to find, but Pelican got me one!). My clutch pedal was wonky and spongy during this time, but I just thought it was a bushing going bad, never dreamed that shaft could break!

Chuck.H
'89 TurboLookTarga, 361k miles

[porschenut]

Sure looks to me like that wear is caused by the edge of the driver's shoe rubbing against the carpet, not the pedal itself. Every time the pedal is pressed in, the shoe rubs the carpet. Probably had big feet or didn't center the ball of his foot on the pedal. If the pedal arm were bent enough for the pedal pad to touch the carpet, it would be clearly obvious.

[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......