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MG TD TF 1500 - Brake pedal play side to side.

Looking at my pedal box. Shaft seems good. No movement front/back in the shaft and the pedals are solid to the shaft.

The free floating brake pedal has about 1/4 side to side play. In looking at Dave Brain's photos, it appears this is correct. Is it?
and if so, why did they design it to move side to side?
Bruce Cunha

Just finished assembling one Bruce with a new shaft and all new bushings....no side play on this one.

L E D LaVerne

Bruce, solid pedals would indicate a good shaft and bushings. However, there are spacers that prevent the brake pedal from having side to side movement. The clutch pedal is located via a bolt that is fixed via a groove in the shaft. The spacers show in Dave's image above along with the head of the bolt that fixes the clutch pedal. Bud
Bud Krueger

Thanks LaVerne and Bud.

So I guess when I rebuilt this in 1973 I left out the spacers. Sooooo, I get to pull the shaft. Well at least it does not look that I have to change the bushings. And I have the body off.
Bruce Cunha

Likely at least brake pedal bushing wear also. If the body is off it is real easy to change everything. You can press the brake pedal bushing out and new one in with a bench vice and spacers. It is a really horrible job with the body on, pretty easy with it off. I recall the bushings are a bit long and require trimming after install. At some point I ran across a repro shaft that the arm was angled out too far so the cover plate could not be installed, and the circlip groove was too far from the end . It was a major pain to correct. George
George Butz III

In the boxes of parts for this 50 TD was a pedal shaft that didn't look all that bad but....is was not drilled at all. No grease possible. I wonder if was original to the car and at some point in production they were modified to what we all now see?
L E D LaVerne

Well, Having just pulled mine out (Body ON) I was surprised to see just how little wear was on the shaft and also the bushings - after 45 years with no grease or lube. It really does not take much wear to give what I thought was significant movement at the pedal top. (1/4")
I installed a new shaft and had it drilled for grease. I also noted that the bushings on a RHD setup (two 1 1/8" wide bushes - unlike the LHD setup) were not too wide!! - In fact, I made another spacer and installed it on the box end of the shaft, under the circlip to take up any pedal movement longitudinally along the shaft. Even with a new shaft and new bushes,it is not as tight as I would like and there is still very minor movement at the pedal foot pad. But way better than it was. To be fair - Once grease is applied it dose becomes less noticeable.

Rod


Rod Jones

This thread was discussed between 22/02/2018 and 23/02/2018

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