Throttle Pedal

Correct. Explains to me now why my pedal differs for an essentially same year Jeep: It's 6 cyl vs 4 cyl

 

My '62 jeep accelerator pedal is stock and looks like Ronnie's. Had to repair it, due to age. Was totally worn out, but now is nice and firm and plenty of travel for that Weber carb under the hood. Had to change the geometry of the linkage some, but it works fine...

 

My '68 V6 had that horrible pedal. It required an un-natural leg/foot position. I'd get foot cramps after an hour or so. No throttle control. Tried a piece of 2x4 as a heel rest, helped but hardly a permanent solution.

I fabbed up a metal one.

 

This is the treaded rod which needs to be adjusted to change the height of the accelerator pedal closer to the foorboard.]http://i644.photobucket.com/albums/uu165/chipdom/0930161145_HDR.jpg[/IMG]

 

I like the rod, solid linkage. Friends have removed that and installed a cable pedal and cable that wets a little lower and like it. I have no trouble with my size 13's reaching the pedal

 

Someplace on this site, I posted these before but I didn't have much success in a search. The system I built for my 3B:


Pivot on firewall:




Solid rod to the throttle body:

 

To install a 1971 floor mounted pedal on my 67 cj5 what would I need besides the pedal?

thanks all,
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Drill and bolts, heat the pedal rod with a torch and bend the last 45 as needed and trim the pedal rod down in length. I used 5/16 rod and formed it with a pipe to make a new pedal rod.

 

Just saw this old post!
No one mentioned that the Rochester 2G carb needs the ball nut stud relocation bracket. Without that bracket, the factory original gas pedal will be pulled up high!

 

Link to bracket?

 

You can see some info on it in this post on one of my build threads: What? Another Jeep?

It basically reduces the distance from the pivot to where the throttle rod connects by half. The same pedal movement will result in more throttle plate movement.

 

(From my gallery)

 

There’s a thread with dimensions on the bracket, let me find it. And yes the pedal is absurdly uncomfortable without it and IMOP fine with it

http://www.earlycj5.com/xf_cj5/index.php?threads/154086/#post-1755149

 

Nope, grind it off and use the 1/4 -20 bolt and nut for your application.

 

That hanging throttle pedal is another Kaiser "cheap out" and was , in my opinion, a terrible engineering solution. Along with the really poor ergonomics, it is pretty much impossible to keep an even throttle application with those in any rough terrain. My 67 had that same arrangement and it to received a floor mounted pedal and the modified linkage shortly after getting it home 54 years back. I too found there was insufficient movement of the linkage to fully operate the carb.