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Originally Posted by mosesburb
I remember now. I called a buddy of mine with a 72 K5 and asked where his pedal sat static. I was going to put it on the rubber bumper at rest, but I had adjusted a brake pedal very high in a vehicle long ago and everybody that drove it complained, so I wanted this one to be in the "right" spot from the get-go. I have mine set right at about 1/2" off the rubber bumper. It still has good range of motion and transition from gas to brake is good--not too high (my foot doesn't run into the side of the brake pedal in transition).
As far as the rod goes, I took the rod that the hydroboost came with and cut the pedal end ring off of it. For the pedal end I took a 73-? female threaded booster rod end and bored it out to a slight press fit on the o.d. of the cut off hydroboost rod. I put it all in the truck, set the pedal 1/2" off the rubber bumper, marked the location on the hydroboost shaft, pulled it all out and welded it together. I'm not a big fan of welding on brake parts, but I figured the part is piloted into the female end and the weld will only be in compression, not tension and there will be no real side-loading. With that going for it, I decided that was my way out of that situation.
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Ok, I will keep this in mind when I get to the point of finishing the brake system.
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Originally Posted by mosesburb
Really?? Cool, I can't wait!!  Oh, wait, :yawn: |
haha I have had multiple updates(not including as much of the tranmission crossmember like I'd hoped, but I did make substantial progress on it!!). But I have made progress despite being sidetracked by planning the wedding and shopping for a house that we have no intentions of buying anytime soon.
Any time that I do get to myself right now is time spent running out to the barn real quick to clean up or to see if something possibly got accomplished while I wasn't there! Spring will be here eventually and that is when the real work will begin. Last winter I didn't even have the motivation to turn a wrench let alone spend hours fabricating and making this darn thing fit where it shouldn't. So the way I see it, anything that gets accomplished in the winter in that freezing barn puts me that much further ahead than I could hope for in the winter to be ready for the real progress in the spring. Stay posted, the updates will come before you know it.