Yea I heard those were the best unfortunately it looks like they’re out of stock and they don’t know when they’ll be able to get more. Are there any other good ones out there?
Look at the cable housing in between the header tubes in post 20. The inner cable looks good, but the outer cable looks fubar. At least I don’t remember it looking like that last time I changed one. Some kind of fluke occurred.The cable should be fine
It was working before the mishap
The clutch pedal would not return if the cable was frayed
What do you mean " regular person'? LOLIt looks like it has a quadrant system and they are bitchy for a regular person to fix
You have to get serious with the pedals to remove and replace the stripped out quadrant parts
From the first pic in post 19, it might appear the adjuster is turned so it is pulling the cable out already. If it isn’t, you can try to turn it out tighter there.Is there any way I could tighten the cable and see what happens? How do you tighten it with the firewall adjuster?
Get a new cable. Any brand is better than what is there now. Keep it away from the headers.So I just tightened the cable using the firewall adjuster (turned it counter clockwise) as much as I could. The pedal now feels somewhat stiff again but I started up the car and with the car running I could not push the shifter into any gear but reverse which made a grind noise. I am able to move the shifter when the car is off however but I could do that before anyway.
Yea I went ahead and ordered a steeda adjustable cable. In the future maybe I’ll switch to the MM once they come back in stock. I called them and he said he didn’t know how long it would be.Get a new cable. Any brand is better than what is there now. Keep it away from the headers.
Its probably been going for a long time, it finally went.........Yea I went ahead and ordered a steeda adjustable cable. In the future maybe I’ll switch to the MM once they come back in stock. I called them and he said he didn’t know how long it would be.
Is it normal for a cable to just go like that? Could something else have caused this or could I have been driving the car too hard?
Any chance you have that ford part #??My friend had a 1987 GT he bought new. When we replaced the clutch, we did TOB, flywheel, disc, pivot stud, pivot arm, clutch cable and quadrant. All Ford Motorsport items. T5-Z also installed. The clutch was a stiffer unit, and after a few weeks the clutch acted like your clutch does. The clutch pedal lever under the dash broke where it was welded around the round bar. When it was replaced, the new Ford part was an updated piece with more metal around the clutch pedal assy. We never thought about that item coming apart, but the heavier pedal and high mileage (188,000 miles, highway car) the factory item failed. After replacement everything worked as normal. The factory update was made around 1989/1990. It may not be your problem but keep this in mind when putting a HD clutch in a FOX body.
No. Not sure of original clutch pedal assy date, but replacement was done around 1993.Any chance you have that ford part #??