Thread: Big foot too big.

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Ever see that big chrome gas pedal on your favorite hot rod. Your thinking, Man that looks cool on that Hot Rod, it would probably look cool on my car! So you rush right out and buy one. You install it on your favorite car. Only problem is, you can't see that the carpet or the floor board is blocking the pedal travel.
So you drive away. After a while you notice a 50% reduction in your engines performance. You check the carb and clean it out good. You check your plugs, wires and ignition. No change, seems to be getting worse. You try to get someone to help you, but they don't know.
Finally, your friend, which happens to be a mechanic, asks if he can help you with your car. You explain to him whats wrong. You pull the hood, start the motor, step on the gas, and he tells you that something is wrong with the linkage. After a couple of minutes, you both realize that it is the Big chrome foot, that is stopping the gas peddle travel, because it is too big to fit in the area of the gas pedal.
Once the pedal is removed, you find that the engine is back to normal. You find all of that power you were missing.

It may look good on somebody elses stuff, but that doesn't mean it's for you.

The Big foot got to be too big, and caused some unforseen problems.

Well, you've learned a lesson and that is that the guys who make that junk are only after the bucks. They couldn't care less whether their junk fits your rod or not or whether it works or not.

After a while you notice a 50% reduction in your engines performance.

Yeah, but think about how your gas milage will improve.


Don

Originally Posted by DennyW

If you use a big foot, you got to have big room.

Denny, you come across as one of the really nice guys who contribute to CRH, but sir, you are coming close to showing a great lack of sensitivity for a man in my situation.

You see, I am one of very few men in the world under six feet tall who wear a size FIFTEEN shoe.

In addition to making me the butt of many unkind comments, shoes for tootsies like mine cost a bundle. A shoe salesman once told me that when I say my prayers at night I should thank God for black basketball players, otherwise I wouldn't be able to buy athletic shoes. Shaq (size 22) sounds like my kind of man!

In the late fifties I bought a little Fiat 600. I couldn't step on the brake without also stepping on the gas. Embarassing.

And those remarks about foot size being directly proportional to other parts of the anatomy, well, those comments are just not true.

Jim ("Big Tracks", now you see where that handle came from.)

And those remarks about foot size being directly proportional to other parts of the anatomy, well, those comments are just not true.





Don

You see, I am one of very few men in the world under six feet tall who wear a size FIFTEEN shoe.



Well now, see that is your problem. They only make these things up to size 10.


I've been hanging onto this thing for a million years. Why, I have no idea. Think I'll put it on Ebay. Some rat rodder will want it, I'll bet.


Don

I couldn't help myself.


I understand.


Don

I hear the left ones go for big money on ebay!!!