EK clutch pedal spring help

station.sedan.man · Post by **station.sedan.man** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:57 pm

Apparently swearing at your clutch return spring (from the dash to top of pedal lever) doesn't make it go back on, nor does the other dozen tricks I have tried, all of which also included swearing, not to mention a sore back from lying on the floor of my wagon plus approximately 10 or so skinned knuckles which also provoked some more swearing.

Does anyone have any tricks out there to get these springs strecthed open and over the end of the pedal?

My next point of call is to weld a wire to it, drill or find a hole in the firewall to thread it through, then winch the wire from my work bench till the spring stretches open enough to hook over the top of the pedal.... Then swear at it some more when it snaps or wrecks another part of my wagon and still doesn't go on....

Cheers

Trev

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:49 am

I was thinking it was a pain in the ass to get that spring off when I did it

, never did I think about putting it back on

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Swearing at it is where I would have started

, I am interested in how to do this also, sorry I can't help Trev

, Trev

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fb cruisin · Post by **fb cruisin** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:28 pm

I'm sure rosco posted something here on fitting this spring.
and he had the instrumet panel out, and steering wheel off, and pulled it on up through there

mrs ratbox · Post by **mrs ratbox** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:33 pm

i had a thread somewhere asking how todo this with some helpfull hints, i've left mine off cause it was all too hard

and nobody really knew what it's real purpose was..........so far so good

station.sedan.man · Post by **station.sedan.man** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:13 pm

Got it back in.... I wasn't in the mood for pulling my restored steering wheel off and taking out my gauge cluster again (although the way rosco did it sounds like it would work fine) so I hammered half a dozen big flat bladed screw drivers into the spring which opened it up a bit, hooked the dash end up first, then used some vice grips clamped on the long straight part of the spring to stretch it the final few mms over the end of the pedal and into the groove. Then pull out all the screw drivers of course and all is done!
I can see why people don't bother putting them back on though, I don't think I can feel much difference in pedal resistance or return pressure, but hey, is done now.
Cheers for the input

Trev