Clutch Pedal

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Gary

Take a look at the picture below, I suspect that your damage may be like this where the lip of the bushing has been deformed. If the damage is minor you can probably reuse the bushing by carefully smoothing the raised lip. Or by carefully cutting/filing it off. I'd use a block of wood to carefully drive the bushing back in to the peddle. Then working carefully smooth ID of the bushing with very fine emery cloth until it slips back on to the shaft.

The bushing is a fairly tight fit in the bore of the peddle, so proceed with care. The ideal method of proceeding would be to carefully push the busing back in to the peddle. Then to use a line ream to clean up the ID of the bushing.

The bushing in the picture I want to replace so I'm looking for a source for them, they are a standard size, and relatively cheep $4 or $5 the problem is finding a source that will sell me a couple, not a gross. Once I find a source I let everybody know where I got them. I have a full set of line reams so getting a nice fit should not be a problem.

Fall back is to do the old mechanics trick of adding a layer of solder to the outside of the bushing file the split joint just a bit and drive the bushing which would then have a smaller ID which can be reamed to fit.

Your right Rick the sharing of information back and forth is one of the things I really like about MLU. It is so neat to have a question answered from halfway around the world in a matter of minutes sometimes.

Cheers Phil