While I've got my car 1/2 apart for my 4spd project, I've decided to look into a long standing issue with my gas pedal. The darn pedal just seems to have a ton of play in it. Not up and down play, like it's supposed to have, but side to side. The thing just seems too sloppy! My FSM doesn't show a good picture /diagram of the pedal attachment, so I can't tell if some small parts are missing (springs and stuff). Either way, it looks overly complicated from the factory.

Does anybody else have a sloppy pedal? Any pictures of the back of a pedal where the plastic pedal attaches to the steel?

Thanks

Larry,

There is a spring to keep tension on the pedal. The pedal rod slides into 2 slots in the back of the pedal and the spring is sandwiched between the slots. One of the slots may be broken. Sorry, no pix.

THanks Mark.

That E-bay kit is great,....too bad my car is not a 67-68. My 69 Dart looks a little different than that kit shows. I don't even know what the black thing is in that kit.

Anybody else got some pictures? Even a kit for a 1969 A-body?

Which way is the tension supposed to be pushing the plastic pedal?

Thanks for the info. I'm sure I'm going to have to get creative a little here, cuz I don't like the slop right now.

Larry, Give me a few days and I'll try to get you a pic of my pedal. Mike

here

Thanks guys....After cleaning the crud out, I found that one side has an allen head. So I tighten it up and the pedal is nice now. No more side to side slop. I didn't take it apart, so I don't know fully how it goes together, but I also don't care now. It's much much better now. It just looks like an overly complicated (lots of small parts)part to do a simple job.

Plumb forgot about that allen screw.