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Tonight I went to the shop after work, and think I have wrapped up how the pedal and master cylinder assemblies will mount to the frame, and where exactly they will go. What I got done wasn't a monumental amount, but it finishes one of the tasks that has been dragging the project down time-wise.

You know, I think anyone who has built a car or fixed one up over a long period of time will say that there are peaks and valleys to the process. Sometimes it seems you make huge strides, and sometimes the work just drags on and on. I am sort of at that draggy stage right now, because all of the tasks I am doing are time consuming yet mundane little jobs that don't seem to give any serious progress to the build, and yet they have to be done to get it running.

When you are bolting on wheels and it is starting to look like a car, things seem to move ahead very quickly, but when you start doing things like building the master cylinder mounts and chores like that, it is hard to see any real motion in the building process. Some nights I have to drag myself to the shop after work because the things I am doing right now aren't the fun things. However, I did get this pedal thing nailed down tonight, and once I get it welded to the frame I will be able to move onto finishing up the steering box mounting.

Here are a couple of pictures of the final assembly I came up with. The pedal mount has a top plate welded to it, and this whole assembly will be welded solidly to the frame. The top section is tapped for a 3/8 bolt, and this is going to be one of my body mounting locations. I will make up 3 more just like it so the body can bolt down to these pads. I didn't have to drop the master cylinder as far below the frame as I thought, it is only about 1/2 inch below the bottom of the frame. I'm pretty happy about that, as I didn't want too much sticking below the frame, which might catch on something as I drive down the road.

I dummied the pedal assembly up on a scrap piece of 2 x 3 frame tubing to illustrate how it will weld to the real frame.

Thanks for looking,

Don