Help! Clutch pedal problem

[gdhillon]

Ok I will try that when I get home, so if it's broken it will move and if it is fine it will stay firm where it is?

 

[SIKPUP]

Check the white plastic clip that holds the clutch MC rod to the pedal, that breaks and pedal goes to floor. Also ford clutch MC rod (where that plastic clip holds everything together) breaks too. That part of rod is plastic... I have had problems with both ! I found an older all metal rod and cut it to lenght and matched the original .
SIKPUP

 

[gdhillon]

Update, my pops used his milwork ingenuity to fix it. I guess it was just the clip but now it doesnt turn over I'm thinking it's just the clutch safety switch.....how do I by pass it?

 

[Simp5782]

cut the 2 red with blue stripe wires, strip the cover off the wires and twist them together and tape them up.

 

[gdhillon]

Ok thanks, and the wires originally are connected by a switch?

 

[gdhillon]

Batteries have to be disconnected?

 

[Simp5782]

Yes they are the 2 wires on the switch, and no you dont disconnect the batteries. the key only needs to be off.

 

[gdhillon]

so in theory i could place a toggle switch there and have it as a anti theft device?

 

[flareside_thun]

Yes you can....a few members here have done that.

 

[gdhillon]

ahhh! so trhe eye on the mc is now broken, only way to replace this is change the whole unit?

 

[Simp5782]

http://oilburners.net/articles/Heim joint clutch pedal mod.htm

 

[Simp5782]

http://www.lmctruck.com/icatalog/fd/full.aspx?Page=117

 

[SIKPUP]

If you look at the push rod , the plastic end with the loop in it is bigger diameter than the metal part. That bigger plastic diameter is what pushes on the switch for your truck to start. the switch just clips around the rod. The rod can be replaced without removing the MC. I got a rod from an older truck that was all metal and cut and notched it to match, the older one was all metal and the switch just clipped back on. You can start it by pushing in on the switch.
SIKPUP

 

[gdhillon]

do you guys know if the line from reservoir that is attached from bottom (on my truck) will work with a mc revservoir that has the line attachment on the front of it? took a looksies at the local wreckers there was only the rods with the plastic ends .

 

[redneckaggie]

get an adjustable push rod from napa hold on a sec and let me find the part number