Gas Pedal Installation

[tucsonjwt]

I installed new firewall insulation in my 83 C20 and now I cannot remember how to install the gas pedal assembly. I have a triangular piece of plastic, a right angle metal bracket, and a gas pedal with a metal rod attached to it.

I covered up the attachment area with sticky backed foam with a metallic finish, so I don't want to pull it off to find the mounting holes without a general idea of how to reinstall the assembly.

Also, do I need a special clip to attach the pedal rod to the metal bracket, or does it attach with a bolt and nut?

Thanks

[sweetk30]

firewall in engine bay take a pick and pop the 3 holes so you can see them inside .

black plastic first against firewall / rod unit sits in the middle with roll pin out / bracket goes on last to sadwich all of it in place / then 3 long course thread bolts black almost like a lag bolt hold it in place .

and 2 bolts up top 1 down low .

[Bandit130]

Here is a pic of mine that looks almost the same. I cut the large L shape off due to it was bulky to handle and it wasn't used for anything anyway.

[sweetk30]

thats were a th400 trans kick down / passing gear switch would mount .

[Bandit130]

Originally Posted by sweetk30

thats were a th400 trans kick down / passing gear switch would mount .

Very well could be. I have a TH350, so nothing was mounted on it. It is still a sample of the mounting.

[tucsonjwt]

Thanks for the responses. What throws me off is all of the extra holes in the metal bracket. So the metal bracket would be installed as oriented in my pic (triangular part mating to the plastic triangle piece) - correct? The rest of the bracket would serve no purpose for me since I have a manual granny gear SM465 transmission? It seems like a lot of bracket serving no purpose in my case.

I see that I have a round plastic fitting left on the cable coming through firewall. I assume that plastic fitting comes off and gets reinstalled on the other side of the metal rod?

I am going to have to remove a lot of stuff in the engine compartment and do some gymnastics to get to those holes (cruise control vacuum can, etc.) since my BB takes up a lot of space. I think I am going to try and just squish the insulation down with the plastic spacer and metal bracket first and see if that works, rather than cut it all away.

Things always come apart easier than they go back together.

[Bandit130]

Originally Posted by sweetk30

firewall in engine bay take a pick and pop the 3 holes so you can see them inside .

black plastic first against firewall / rod unit sits in the middle with roll pin out / bracket goes on last to sadwich all of it in place / then 3 long course thread bolts black almost like a lag bolt hold it in place .

and 2 bolts up top 1 down low .

This is correct install. There are only 3 screws used that screw in from inside cab into firewall. The pedal shaft should be slotted at top end for cable to slide in to.

[tucsonjwt]

I got the pedal assembly installed and it operated correctly for a couple of start ups, then the plastic retainer flew off the end of the cable. How does the retainer attach and does anyone have a picture of one? I only found a plastic bushing on the floor, so I don't know what one should look like.

[Bandit130]

This is how the plastic piece looks. I have heard of them breaking off and if you cannot rig something on the end that does not go thru the hole in pedal shaft you will need to replace cable.

[tucsonjwt]

Thanks for the excellent pic of the cable.

My cable does not look like the pic you have shown. I have a small steel ball formed on the end of the cable and that is all I see. LMC has a catalog entry for just a retainer on the end, so I was hoping that there would be some way to slide that retainer over the end of the cable. The LMC entry shows no enlarged picture, so I don't know what it looks like.