V8S Remove of gas pedal ??

[phillpot]

Making hard work of this!


Left or right hand drive I can't see that pedal box would differ (no different part numbers in parts book) while you may drive on the wrong side of the road you do at least still use the right, your right, foot for the throttle pedal (gas pedal is such a vulgar term, gas comes down a pipe to make my cooker work).

Here is a pedal box.....




Here is the split pin you need to remove.....




And now the pivot pin pulls out towards the brake pedal.....





Should you wish to remove the complete pedal box it's not a big job,

Pivot pins out of clutch and brake pedal.Clutch pin is a spring clip whereas brake is a conventional clevis/split pin.
2 wires off brake light switch.
4 nuts off back of servo.
2 nuts and bolts off clutch master cylinder.
2 nuts and bolts (M8) through flat part of bulkhead/top of pedal box.

No need to disconnect any pipes

[phillpot]

asteinha said:

The split pin is on the left side.

Are you sure?

Did you have your head upside down when you were looking

[asteinha]

Hi,
Great pictures and infos.

I find this evening a solution for my pedal. we drilled a new hole in the pedal, below the old upper fixing.

An other questions to the pedal.
has the pedal a stop, so that will not be exercised too much pressure on the accelerator cable?

Gruß
Toni

[Oldred_V8S]

phillpot said:

asteinha said:

The split pin is on the left side.

Are you sure?

Did you have your head upside down when you were looking

His issue is Mike is that the pivot exits from the right of the pedal box, which is fine on a RHD car, but on a LHD car the transmission tunnel gets in the ways. My circlip is on the left as well. I guess TVR built up the pedal boxes without a thought as to whether they were going into a RHD or LHD car. Like you say, not a big job to remove the whole thing.

[phillpot]

That is quite possible Paul, but from the photo I'm not so sure?




It's none too clear but I can't make out a split pin on the left, is it there on the right, in the shadows?

[v8s4me]

I'd try pulling the carpet out of the way to see if I could a narrow pliers on the end of the split pin. Worth a try?

asteinha said:

.........has the pedal a stop, so that will not be exercised too much pressure on the accelerator cable?...

No. So it is less of this and more of this

[asteinha]

Ok,
no pedal stop.
This means that a high pressure at full throttle there might often on the rope.
Which increases the danger of traveling the rope again.
I think I have to let me come up with an improvement here

Gruß
Toni

[glenrobbo]

I think a throttle limit stop is a brilliant idea to prevent stretching or breaking the throttle cable. Has anyone thought of this before ....

[phillpot]

I've got one, guess what It's made from?

[asteinha]

wood...

[Alan Whitaker]

asteinha said:

wood...

I like that



Alan

[glenrobbo]

I had no idea you could get stainless wood!

[phillpot]

asteinha said:

wood...

Try again





Must get around to fitting a pedal rubber

[Buzzlt]

Phew, so glad that last time you gave me a lift you wern't actually able to floor it ;-)