helllllllllp,

I'm starting on a manual swap into my car and have a pedal problem. I've got the pedals, but not the bracket that bolts to the firewall.

1. Do you guys think I could hang my manual brake pedal in the existing auto bracket, and weld a home made bracket to that to support the clutch pedal? It'd be a lot easier for me to fab something up than look all over Dallas for a bracket. I'd, of course bolt the added piece to the firewall as well.

2. Is the firewall dimpled where the clutch master cylinder should mount, or is there some other definitive way of locating it properly?

3. My t-5 has a sensor and plug where the speedo cable should connect, and my car is an 89. What kind of trouble am I in for there?

I stand ready to receive your wisdom. Mel

 

nudge.

 

1. I doubt it. Besides, for about 1/10 the effort of trying to make something that will actually WORK (details...), you can go scab one out of a junker. I realize that DFW metro is a pretty small, isolated, low-population-density kind of place, with very few cars and even fewer junked ones; but I somehow doubt that you'd have to go more than 5 miles from ANYWHERE in town to find a junkyard with plenty of those brackets.

2. No dimples. But, the parts themselves will tell you where they need to go. Once you take care of #1, #2 will make itself pretty clear. After the pedal bracket is mounted, the 2 little brackets that come with it, which you are probably also missing, will tell you where the bolt holes go, and once you have those, the gasket on your master cyl will give you the hole template.

3. Direct un-bolt & re-bolt. One screw.

 

Fortunately I do have the two brackets that go down to the firewall, so I guess I'm in fair shape all things considered.

I'm thinking while the transmission is out would be a good time to put my headers on. Seems like they should slide up from the bottom pretty easy.

Really happy to hear about the speedo drive thing. Since my auto car has 2.90s or some such BS in it (rear gear), and the t-5 donor car probably had something deeper, can I expect my speedo drive gear to work? I've got a 3.42 1le (big brakes) axle that will go in soon, but not yet.

If all the crossmembers are the same I should grab one of those too at the salvage yard and get it powdercoated for the swap.

I hate putting nasty **** back on the car. I've probably got the only set of powdercoated stock front control arms around. Did that when I rebuilt the front end.

 

The brackets won't do you a whole lot of good until you have the right bracket; the other end of them goes on the pedal pivot bolt.

Once you bolt up the bracket, you can lay the firewall end of the 2 braces up against the firewall, and where they land, is where the bolt holes need to be.... make sure you put the U-bolt thing through them to get them spaced the right distance apart, before you drill.