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Car Forum / Ford / Ford Falcon / December 2003Help please
The clucth pedal in my 89 falcon is twisting and will soon break off. Anyone know of a good ford wrecker or wrecker that is on line cause i've tried the canberra mobs and no luck. Thanks for any info/links in advance Matt That's still a problem in the AU, I think you'll find the parts are available new as its very common and some welding will be required to make sure it dosent happen again in a hurry. > The clucth pedal in my 89 falcon is twisting and will soon break off. Anyone > know of a good ford wrecker or wrecker that is on line cause i've tried the > canberra mobs and no luck. > Thanks for any info/links in advance > > Matt >That's still a problem in the AU, > >I think you'll find the parts are available new as its very common and some >welding will be required to make sure it dosent happen again in a hurry. You can get the bits new, but they arn't cheap and not always in stock as I found out. What you can do is have it drilled and bolted like I did, this cost about an hour of a mechanics time vs a good few hundred to r/r the dash/weld the pedal box. I had this done on my EF XR6, from memory the plate the breaks its weld was bent back into position and held with clamps, 4 or 5 holes drilled around the clutch pivol, ie thru the main/plate and nuts with locking washers on both sides used. Worked beautifully thanks for the replies guys. another question i have is will a EB V8 manual pedal set bolt onto my EA? my brother saiod he could get his hands on one but he's in geelong and i'm in canberra so I can't look at it to see. this is the second one in three years cause the missus likes to put her foot on the very left of the pedal and holds it in at the lights instaed of putting it in neutral and taking her fott off the clutch. > >That's still a problem in the AU, > > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > main/plate and nuts with locking washers on both sides used. Worked > beautifully >thanks for the replies guys. another question i have is will a EB V8 manual >pedal set bolt onto my EA? my brother saiod he could get his hands on one >but he's in geelong and i'm in canberra so I can't look at it to see. this >is the second one in three years cause the missus likes to put her foot on >the very left of the pedal and holds it in at the lights instaed of putting >it in neutral and taking her fott off the clutch. Can't answer for sure but I assume it would. Maybe try calling a Ford dealer and get the part numbers to be sure. Have you checked the firewall for cracking too? > Can't answer for sure but I assume it would. Maybe try calling a Ford > dealer and get the part numbers to be sure. > > Have you checked the firewall for cracking too? The firewall was strengthened before i bought the car. i found out because it looks no where near like factory and asked the mech i got to look it over said it was fairly common as the firewall wasn't very strong. so i guess i'm playing fix the weakest link (again). talked to my local ford spares guy and he said the eb pedal set should bolt straight in. i'm going to get the thing over engineered so the car will fall apart around it. I think the price for a new one is nearly the same as a wrecking yard mate, go for the new one. and check why it is twisting that may stop any future probs surfacing Peter > The clucth pedal in my 89 falcon is twisting and will soon break off. Anyone > know of a good ford wrecker or wrecker that is on line cause i've tried the > canberra mobs and no luck. > Thanks for any info/links in advance > > Matt |
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