Peddle Box Blues

Two posts in one day again. This post is by way of an antidote to the previous one and has a much happier ending.

Whilst the engine has been away, on and off, there has been precious little progress on the rest of the car, so I decided to get to work on some of the ancillaries. The peddle box looked like a good place to start. This is what it looked like when I got the car:

 

 

 

Pretty grim as you can see. One of the peddles was damaged when someone tried to remove the pivot, (which fortunately was in one of the boxes of odds and sods) and the remains of the spindle is seized into the shaft. The spindle had been cut in half to get the peddles out of the box.

 

 

Anyhow, it all cleaned up fine in Deox-C and the peddle was rewelded and straightened easily.

 



 

 

 

Off to the powder coaters who gave it a light blast, zinced it and then coated it

 

Then re assembly with new spindles

Needs a little fettling to get the accelerator spindle right and, on reflection, I will probably get a new lubrication plate, as the old one is not readable and kind of spoils the effect, but on the whole I am rather pleased with it.





A quick update to the peddle box:

I did, in the end, get a new lube plate, from David Gerald's.