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Advice or opinion

Post by fordt » Sat Jun 20, 2020 7:17 pm

Setting up the pedals on my 27 hogshead with new cams and looking at pedal alignment. Have Rocky brakes with a homemade pedal (crafted looking at an original, using a wide pedal head). SO, I know I can heat and bend pedals where I want them, but this is bending against the main spine of the pedals. Also, since reverse is probably the least used pedal as far as really pushing on it, should I try to align with it, or choose a happy medium between all 3. Trying to do this before putting the engine in the car, but I know that floorboard height is a concern eventually.
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Re: Advice or opinion

Post by CudaMan » Sat Jun 20, 2020 8:13 pm

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Re: Advice or opinion

Post by fordt » Sat Jun 20, 2020 8:28 pm

Yup, quite familiar with Mike and his great videos....


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Re: Advice or opinion

Post by Jerry VanOoteghem » Sat Jun 20, 2020 8:53 pm

I don't see anything wrong with them the way they are.

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Re: Advice or opinion

Post by RajoRacer » Sat Jun 20, 2020 8:54 pm

This is a Ford Z tool - it's used to bend the pedals cold and would place your reverse pedal centered between the other two as it should be !
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Re: Advice or opinion

Post by Jerry VanOoteghem » Sat Jun 20, 2020 9:03 pm

RajoRacer wrote:
Sat Jun 20, 2020 8:54 pm
This is a Ford Z tool - it's used to bend the pedals cold and would place your reverse pedal centered between the other two as it should be !
Well, ok, I'll agree with the reverse pedal needing to be contered.


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Re: Advice or opinion

Post by John kuehn » Sat Jun 20, 2020 9:10 pm

Good idea to get the pedals in the right position. I didn’t think about it until I got the engine bolted in and set the floorboards in only to find my size 13 got tangled up with a bent pedal.
Used a torch and straightened out the reverse pedal. It helped but I got the pedal extension for the reverse pedal and now no issues at all. It really does help in my case.


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Re: Advice or opinion

Post by Scott_Conger » Sat Jun 20, 2020 9:17 pm

that is barely a tweek to make right
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Re: Advice or opinion

Post by ABoer » Sun Jun 21, 2020 3:59 am

Hi all ;
I bend the brake pedal warm , so he is vertical [picture] .
For the other two I don't have a good measurement till now .
But the reverse is mostly OK .
But first I weld up the Pedal supports # 3436 -3442 .
So there is not any forward movement of the pedals, only sideways .
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Re: Advice or opinion

Post by fordt » Sun Jun 21, 2020 10:13 am

That’s a great picture. I’m assuming when you say welding up pedal supports, you are welding/building up the 2 cam surfaces and not actually welding the cams to the hogshead!?

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Re: Advice or opinion

Post by ABoer » Sun Jun 21, 2020 10:47 am

Rob , Yes I am building up the 2 surfaces on the cams ,
and also I put some O rings between the cams and Hogs Head
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Re: Advice or opinion

Post by fordt » Sun Jun 21, 2020 12:15 pm

I have done the O ring reaming, but purchased new pedal cams. Was going to try to maybe build up the pedal cams to eliminate slop, but reticent to try to machine/grind down the two surfaces to keep them evenly contacting the hogshead cams.....
Thanks!


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Re: Advice or opinion

Post by fordt » Mon Jun 22, 2020 9:23 pm

Thanks to all, got things more evened up and aligned today. As an aside and a possible tip, I cut some conduit to use as a spacer to hold the pedals up solid against the cams. Made it a little easier to heat and bend the pedals to their final resting place.
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