Accelerator Rod Bushings, Pedals, and Floorboards
Time to wrap up some odds and ends with the pedals before moving back to the engine bay.
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On my quest to have perfectly functional driver controls, I decided to replace my trashed accelerator rod bushing. All one of them.
The only one left was the one under the shifter. The other two were missing in action. They probably crumbled and got sucked out the back of the center tunnel with no shift rod boot. I bought three new ones here on Amazon. They were the same ones offered on other parts sites.
Its interesting how the old one turned into a brown crumbly mess and the new ones are some kind of strange gummy clear plastic.
To install them you just bend the tabs out, extract the old one, snap in the new one and bend the tabs back down. There’s the new rear one under the shift coupler access panel.
There’s another one at the back of the shifter hole.
I forgot to take a picture of one under the hand brake handle. Then I found a good spot to add a fourth one, for redundancy. At the front of the tunnel there is a metal tab holding one of the center tunnel fuel lines.
Its not long enough for a bushing, but I managed to gently zip tie a bushing to the outside of the tab where the accelerator rod travels, that way the fuel line is not disturbed and the rod still slips freely through the bushings. I read somewhere that longhoods have a fourth bushing at approximately this location but I can’t confirm that.
Lastly, I added a little bit of lithium grease for extra slippage.
Then my rebuilt pedals went back in along with a new clutch cable and clevis pin.
There was nothing wrong with my floorboards…
…except that they clearly weren’t RACECAR enough, so I picked these up in the classifieds. 🙂
I sort of just threw them in here so they wouldn’t take up shelf space, but I may paint them both black at some point. I am on the fence about the dead pedal as I have to pull up the carpet and see what lives under there at the moment. Plus most dead pedals put screw holes in the front left wheel well, so I need to figure out a more elegant installation method that wont be a hazard to my front left tire.
Next time we will continue prepping the engine bay for its fresh flat six.