Not a very exciting one this time, but necessary, nevertheless. I had high hopes for progress over the Christmas break, but didn’t actually get anywhere as much done as I had hoped, and didn’t even touch the bit I planned to work on, the Gearbox.
Anyway, did get some stuff done and one of those things was the Pedal assemblies. First, needed to disassemble the pedal boxes, all fairly straight forward but one bit had me stumped for a while until I managed to borrow a Hydraulic 12 Ton press.
This is the drawing from the parts book. the bits highlighted in red are what holds the pedal in the pedal box. There is a shaft (23) that sits inside two brass bushes (20). the shaft is held in-place with a pin (24) that locates through the shaft and the pedal box.
On my brake pedal assembly, the whole pedal was seized tight, and it was these parts that clearly had seized together and needed replacing.
Decided to do both pedals.
Managed to get an order in just after Christmas, after I realised I wouldn’t get to the Gearbox as planned, which, fortunately was delivered soon after.
The image on the left shows the pin (Holes) and on the right the shaft being pressed out, using sockets and upside down bolt to press it all the way out.
With everything in bits, as well as the accelerator parts, off to the blast cabinet, for nearly a day and half of sand blasting to clean it all up, ready for some paint.
I did spend some more time cleaning them up a little more and degreasing them before priming with Anti-Rust primer.
Clearly, making sure all the areas not to be painted were masked off first.
2 coats of primer, and 2 coats of Gloss black later. Oh, and all these parts hanging up around the house to keep them warm when they dried.
So onto assembly. To start with, the Accelerator assemblies. Now, I’m not putting these onto the Land Rover yet, will wait for the weather to be a little drier & warmer before I do that, but can lay them all out to make sure its all there. Also sorted out all the Nuts and Bolts I need when I do come to fit it all.
The Brake and Clutch pedals are pretty much the same, and again, will assemble them and then store them for when I do fit.
The brass bushes I mentioned earlier, according to the Official Land Rover Green Manual (I have just ordered one, to save me having to constantly read a pdf on my iPad) says they should be reamed to .750in. Now one of them , the bushes went onto the shaft and felt really nice, not tight, not too loose, and went ahead and re-assembled that pedal assembly. The other one, when it all went together, was too tight, so that one will need to be reamed, new tool (Adjustable reamer) ordered, so that will have to wait to be fully assembled until I have that and can get back down to the workshop.
I also noticed the some of the bolts that hold the pedal box to the bulkhead were not screwing in great, so spent some more cash and purchased a cheap UNF/UNC tap and die set. I’m sure that will come in useful later.
Little bit of a clean up of the threads sorted that, and they are all now perfect.
Thats it pretty much, not what I had planned, but all jobs that need doing and easier to achieve, even when you do have Man Flu for much of the time after Christmas.
Hoping you had a good Christmas and Happy New Year. Talking of New year, it was always hoped to get Isobel on the road before her 60th Birthday on the 1st November 2025. My feeling is that its going to be tight, as such am now thinking Summer of 2026 is probably more realistic, but, we will “keep on keeping on” a quote from a great Winston Churchill film “Darkest Hour” if I remember correctly.
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