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On 24 Aug 2005 at 9:25, Everett Barnes wrote: > > Okay, this is getting more complicated and more interesting. Would you be > > able > > to go to one of these early cars and measure the horizontal distance > > between > > the back of the pedal and the metal crosspiece in front of it? I wonder if > > it > > is closer than the 220/225mm specified for the later cars. > > > Unfortunately this is too difficult on my current '63 Squareback due to the > rubber mats (instead of carpet). How about just measuring to the mat and then estimating the thickness of the mat? > > Any chance that the early pedals just got set more "upright" than the > > tandem MC pedals? > > > I have noticed a difference. Driving my '67 Squareback, I couldn't wear my > hiking boots because my shoe couldn't get in between the brake pedal and > tunnel to push the accelerator. Size 10 shoe. Even my normal tennis shoes > barely fit. I've noticed other people asking about this in the past. > > My '63 has tons of room. Yes, getting big boots in there is a learned skill. ;-) The book shows just one brake pedal for '65-'69, and I don't know what changed in '69. They also show a different pushrod starting in '67, to be used with a different MC boot, which I don't recall ever seeing. There is a gap in the brake pedals between the very early cars and '65. I can't tell what happened there. It looks like there were a lot of changes being made for not very obvious reasons. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~