I always had trouble with my gas pedal sticking. I even took it out one time and even though it moved easily by hand it would stick when I applied pressure with my foot. So we rebuilt if, Bryant warrantied it for 40 years, we'll see. Put it in a vice and ground off the ends so the bracket comes off, then pressed out the rod that sits in the pedal itself. We drilled out the pedal holes a little wider to accept break tubing that we cut to the width of the bracket. If we had a little bigger diameter tubing we would have cut that to size and put that over the smaller tubing but instead we used washers and packed everything with black grease. The theory is to have different pivot points so that if there is binding in one the other one will allow smooth travel. And we just put a bolt through with a nyloc washer to keep everything tight but not too tight. Came out great. Here is a picture of it installed. My car for some reason had just sheetmetal screws holding the pedal in place, is that how everyone else's is? So we ran nice long bolts from the firewall into the compartment. Result, REALLY smooth and the pedal returns back to neutral position every time so far. I have a locar throttle cable on my car and we realized that the secondaries weren't opening fully because there is a little return stop built into the pedal bracket that you can see we cut a little back on in the above pic. That allowed us to better adjust the throttle.
Looks like a good fix, though! Where is the drill press you are using? Is that something you just have laying around in your garage? I have a Bridgeport, but not in my garage. I "loaned" it to my wife's grandfather, and he has it in his shop until his days are over, then back to me.
hey it's a sterile environment, can't you tell? lol. Everything you see in my pics happen at Bryant's shop. He is a very good friend of mine that runs a gear and axle shop and he let's me work on my car there and use his tools. He has been an amazing help and really helped me figure out what I wanted to do with this car. Before that I was just throwing money at the car and getting nowhere, now I'm throwing money at it and I'm getting somewhere. . . 1/4 mi at a time.
I figured it was Bryant's. It is nice to have access to that kind of stuff when you need it. So you can do the job RIGHT!
sorry to get off the subject mashori but how much does your friend charge to re gear the axle to 3.55 and making postive ( postive is two wheel peel right?) mine only does the one wheel peel. its a stock 8 inch rear end
Ruben, Here's his member info. You should probably contact him directly. His website is in the contact info tab. http://mmb.maverick.to/member.php?u=7151
Thanks for posting this, Mashori. I've had an occasional sticky gas pedal too and I have focused on the carb linkage, throttle return springs, and gone so far as to replace the cable with a new braided steel one. It had never occurred to me that it might be the pivot point on the pedal itself.
You know I don't actually know what he charges. I just know he did mine along with a thousand other things on my car and I have NO complaints. So he is definitely the man to go to but you best ask him the details. His shop number is (858)449-5656 and Steve is front desk person, he is a very helpful guy to talk to also.
