Gee Dave, I really appreciate the thought, but I don't think that the 5.13's are in the cards. I ordered a set of 3.55's from Speedway yesterday about 2pm and I was surprised when the FedEx truck pulled down the drive this morning at 9am with two boxes! Great service, even if Lincoln is only about five hours away!

When I got ready to cut the slot for the brake pedal I decided to copy the feature that Duane used on the '33, making the threaded bung removable so that the slot can be smaller and the pedal can easily be removed and replaced in the future. The bung was on the gas pedal side of the arm, which didn't make sense to me for an automatic so I swapped it to the left side looking at the pedal. More clearance from the gas, and won't be cheating the steering column so much, either.

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Got it all done, mounted it on the pivot and decided to mount the pedal to the arm and the stinkin' bolt wouldn't fit. It threaded in about two turns easy, but stopped and wouldn't go farther. I decided maybe it was metric so I took the end piece off and headed to the hardware store. A 12mm metric slid through the hole, and a 14mm was obviously too big. A 1/2x20 would to two threads and stop. About then I noticed that the threads only went about 2/3 through the bung You can actually see it in this head-on shot!

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Finally decided to cut off the bung and weld on a piece of a threaded coupling but they didn't have one in NF so I swapped it to NC, bought a new bolt to match and headed back home. Turned into an all afternoon project, but the darned thing's mounted!!

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