Upgraded Accelerator Pedal - Installed by JBugs:

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0:00 hi guys Sam jbugs.com we're back again 0:02 in the shop here at 0:07 work at work on the 1967 Beetle you guys 0:10 haven't seen this in a little bit cuz 0:12 well we've been busy on a lot of things 0:14 since the New Year and that period uh 0:16 doing a lot of work at home uh after 0:18 hours uh on Nathan's car here at work uh 0:21 not a whole lot's changed still have the 0:23 uh the unassembled long block that we 0:25 need to finish turning into a running 0:27 engine of course we got the 67 we still 0:29 have plans with back over there we've 0:31 got uh that damaged aluminum engine case 0:34 and a whole bunch of products 84 mm 0:36 flange crankshaft 92 mm thick wall 0:40 pistons and cylinders Strokers of course 0:42 uh so we're going to build a large 0:45 engine if anybody is really good with 0:46 numbers an 84 by 92 or 92x 84 depending 0:50 on which way way you want to go with it 0:51 uh that's going to be a 2234 engine 0:53 we're going to build that thing into 0:55 over here we've got a gram scale ring 0:57 grinder flap wheels and stuff like that 0:59 so I can go through and end weight our 1:02 connecting rods we can make certain that 1:04 our Pistons are uh all match weighted 1:06 same thing on the connecting rods that's 1:08 why we got all that stuff but today 1:10 we're here to work on this little guy 1:12 right here foot pedal assembly upgraded 1:16 the biggest upgrade of course is this 1:18 heavy duty lever with ball bearing 1:20 equipped roller and a flatbed 1:23 accelerator pedal with a thicker pin 1:26 here more strength and much smoother 1:30 throttle actuation let's get to it so 1:33 we're going to take that amp kit and get 1:35 that installed with that upgraded pedal 1:37 which involves jacking the car up 1:39 loosening the clutch cable then we can 1:41 go inside pull off our access plate on 1:43 the back side of the tunnel disconnect 1:45 the clutch cable pull out the pedal 1:47 assembly bring it over the bench make uh 1:49 one small modification is all that 1:51 should take I believe depending on if 1:53 it's got the the little arm on the back 1:55 side of the accelerator pedal we'll take 1:56 a look at that if that's there we'll cut 1:58 that out but other than that it's a 2:00 pretty much a bolt on a 2:06 fair and we'll come in here and we'll 2:08 note where 2:10 our six 2:12 shooter clutch cable adjustment nut is 2:14 at and how much cable sticking out of it 2:17 or so we can get it back in the same 2:18 place when we put everything back 2:20 together so I'm going to disconnect that 2:22 real quick so you guys can see how nice 2:24 it is to use this six shooter clutch 2:27 cable adjustment that 2:30 you ever seen a clutch cable adjust that 2:32 easy these things are so nice and this 2:36 is the stain in the steel one I want to 2:38 drop this thing on my face 2:43 buto I don't know where the heck it went 2:46 but oh there it is there we go six 2:49 shooter stainless steel clut adjustment 2:52 nut super super nice and we'll come pull 2:56 out our AIS 2:58 plate 3:00 we've got that pulled out clutch cables 3:03 disconnected um you know what probably 3:05 should uh disconnect our throttle cable 3:09 let's see if I can do that by hand in 3:12 here yep I can sweet don't have to worry 3:15 about 3:16 that then you know what this time I'm 3:18 going to grab my 3:28 glasses 3:30 that and 3:31 that I 3:33 guess we'll make life easy and 3:35 disconnect the brake pedal rod with all 3:38 that 3:39 disconnected clip for our brake pedal 3:41 push rod spring disconnected brake pedal 3:44 push rod 3:46 disconnected 3:48 and perhaps 3:50 maybe I can have my pedal assembly up 3:52 there we 3:53 go just like so p l is out all right six 3:58 and a half millimeters basically 4:00 equivalent to/ quarter inch we got all 4:03 that we've got our pedal assembly we'll 4:05 pound out that pin and here we can see 4:07 the stock or accelerated lever it's only 4:10 got one pivot here this will actually 4:13 end up doubling up that pivot to give it 4:15 more 4:17 stability that came out by hand probably 4:19 because I cleaned this thing up earlier 4:21 all right so that's our stock lever 4:24 which gets upgraded with a double 4:26 pivoting lever much more cure on its 4:30 axis also got to push out this 4:36 pin and you can see that the upgraded 4:40 shoulder bolt doesn't fit our stock 4:42 pedal and our stock pedal has this ramp 4:45 that even that ramp is off AIS so that's 4:48 why this roller had to be wide and if 4:52 this gets bent out of shape or this 4:55 roller gets worn out and this is just a 4:59 plastic roller all this starts to get 5:01 very clunky not going to be a problem 5:03 anymore we've got to drill this out the 5:06 quarter in drill 5:10 bit slightly larger than a quarter inch 5:13 but we'll 5:14 uh we'll 5:17 get through them both yeah 26 so Next 5:22 Step Up is I'm guessing this is 5:26 1764 seems about right 1764 5:30 is our neck size 5:38 up and with 5:44 that the minest amount of play so again 5:48 a 6 and a half millimeter is what they 5:50 claim it to be if you can get a 6 and 5:52 half millimeter drill bit you'll 5:54 probably be better off but 17 64s will 5:57 do so now the question is is whether or 5:59 not not oh yep I'm pretty sure we're 6:02 going need to knock that guy off but 6:04 let's find out that guy attaches to 6:06 there this guy goes through 6:09 here that that 6:11 way no modification needed on that style 6:15 so if your Stop's way back there we're 6:18 good to go and the nice thing is is 6:20 because this have some some heft to it 6:22 that uh you can really feel how solid 6:25 and smooth it is very nice all right so 6:31 let's do that that that that and that 6:34 one thing I saw that was going to be 6:35 kind of a pain is getting this spring 6:38 fed into that hole so let me grab a pair 6:40 of needl noose pliers and see that makes 6:44 anything easier imagine it probably 6:46 should yeah you know what I'm just going 6:49 to ever so slightly Bend this tab out to 6:54 give me some room to put that spring in 6:56 place ah easy peasy glum and squeezy 7:00 and then we'll tap it 7:04 back good as gold got to be up past that 7:09 step there we 7:15 go 7:17 nice all right that's that that's 7:24 that that's 7:26 that too many tools in the way 7:31 all right and there we 7:36 go we'll get a 13 mm wrench tighten that 7:39 down and this does have a NY 7:42 loock oh here that not quite as good as 7:46 a German bearing from my skateboarding 7:48 days 7:50 but and this a upgrade in the sense that 7:53 we didn't actually have a rubber pad on 7:55 our pedal 7:58 before 8:03 and we'll make certain everything is 8:05 in and overlapped on the back sides make 8:09 certain that our pedal pad is 8:12 secure just like 8:18 so this guy's ready to go back in the 8:21 car and there we can see everything that 8:24 this pedal kit replaces not including of 8:27 course we didn't have a pedal Pad but so 8:29 we replaced our pedal pivot 8:32 spring pin lever roller washer and clip 8:38 with this kit which is lever roller 8:42 bearing equipped 8:45 nut pin with 8:48 circlip 8:50 spring shoulder bolt with a 8:54 nut all that is replaced with heavier 8:57 Duty items 9:00 and that pedal is 9:01 now spring 9:04 equipped all right hopefully I'm not in 9:07 your way while I'm doing all this 9:08 install but if I am I'm sorry always my 9:11 least favorite part is the the brake 9:13 pedal spring there we go got it there 9:17 and got it 9:19 there there we go Spring's good there 9:22 put our clip back in place and let's put 9:25 our bolts back in 9:34 now I'm probably to need some needle 9:36 pliers to get the cable in came out so 9:38 much easier last time I kicked the 9:40 camera over I'm sorry hopefully you guys 9:42 can still see I was able to get the 9:44 cable out of the old lever without 9:47 disconnecting it from the carburetor but 9:49 I can't get this thing in without 9:52 disconnecting it so I've got it 9:54 disconnected from our carburetor now and 9:57 let's 9:58 see 10:01 and you know what I'm going to 10:03 disconnect this lever or the spring 10:07 rather 10:08 because that just makes it so much 10:11 easier to get into and work 10:13 on there well all right well now that 10:16 we're 10:19 disconnected I can get some 10:21 slack 10:24 and insert the 10:28 cable 10:31 needl nose pliers might do some 10:33 helps there we go 10:36 beautiful all right that's set let me go 10:39 hook up the uh throttle cable at the 10:42 carburetor there we 10:46 go and I can't push this and pull that 10:50 at the same time so let me film that 10:53 make sure that we're getting a full 10:58 throttle 11:02 that's floored that arm should be all 11:04 the way pulled down basically uh 11:07 perpendicular to the car or parallel 11:09 with the the ground 11:14 anyway much more secure much more 11:17 surefooted is I guess probably the best 11:20 thing I can 11:21 say super super 11:23 nice all right that works now that I've 11:26 got everything back in place there I 11:28 will 11:29 reattach our clutch cable and button up 11:32 this 11:33 tunnel I like to take the pedal pad and 11:36 roll it up underneath there 11:39 but a 11:42 very solid 11:44 smooth accelerator pedal it's also a 11:47 good upgrade for those guys that you 11:49 lost your accelerator pedal lever I love 11:52 clutch cable access plates and now you 11:54 can see why see how easy it is to uh 11:55 patch a clutch 11:57 cable 11:59 just like that anyway as I was saying 12:02 it's a great kit for those that somebody 12:04 may have swapped out your pedal assembly 12:07 to a roller pedal and you want to go 12:09 back to a stock 12:11 pedal as long as they didn't cut off the 12:14 mount at the bottom right there that's 12:16 all you need and you can go back to a 12:18 stock style accelerator pedal the rubber 12:21 pad yeah we need to replace those but 12:23 we'll get there that's all there is to 12:27 that other than now I've got go 12:29 underneath the car and reattach the 12:31 clutch cable and do all that stuff but 12:33 you guys have seen that process that's 12:36 nothing 12:37 [Music] 12:51 new I don't know at what point my 12:53 microphone stopped working in the last 12:55 segment of video or like actually 12:57 technically three segments of video ago 12:59 but it did I didn't catch it so I got to 13:03 go for another 13:27 Drive 13:51 super 13:54 nice I'll give a a rolling example of 13:57 why I like SB da and vacuum Advanced 13:59 Distributors this is second 14:02 gear the car is 14:05 idling and 14:07 bucking and I can just roll into the 14:12 throttle and she takes off smoothly 14:15 let's see you do that with a double on9 14:18 distributor that throttle is 14:24 just with that that's the MP 98 10 93- 14:30 upgraded accelerator pedal kit installed 14:32 pretty simple other than a little bit of 14:34 drilling and some fidgeting with that 14:36 accelerator cable to get it back in 14:37 which it's a little bit less clearance 14:39 against the tunnel versus a stock one so 14:41 it's a little bit more difficult to get 14:42 in but once it's 14:45 in it's in and on that note this is Sam 14:48 with jbugs.com saying world's full of 14:50 good people can't find one be one later 14:57 guys