Brake pedal sits too high
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This has been an issue since i replaced the servo type pedal with a randome one aquired from M&Ms, thought it was normal. Just rebuilt the standard pedal box to be able to fit the more compact remote reservoir cylinders and set the master cylinder heights acordingly with both clevis pin heights the same and the pedal still sits way to high.

This is problematic for heal and toe shifting as the accelerator pedal is nearly out of reach when on the brake.

Anybody else experience the same? Is it normal? (Dont recall this from other minis I've had)

Are you not happy to cut and weld the pedal to suit ?

The later hexagonal shaped pad ones do seem to sit high.
On one of the forums there were some comparison photos of the different lever angles of different pedal types.

Here we go:
http://mk1-forum.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8...it=Pedal+height

Edited by graemec on 18th Oct, 2015.

Just found a topic about the same subject back in 2010 that I posted in saying that the pedal height was ok for heal and toe lol, its certainly not now I've fucked about with the master cylinders http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=364190

I also said I wouldn't cut and weld it, which I'm still not happy about.

I have been to Mini Fair 2 today and looked through the jumble. The only pedal boxes I found complete had silly bolt on pedal thingamabobs so can't recaĺ if they were square pedal or hexagonal which is an interesting observation you have pointed out. They did however look as if they were the same height with the clevis pins level. Every other pedal box was either missing the brake pedal or was a servo type. Also found a couple of pedals on their own, but difficult to compare.

The Mini Forum comes up trumps. So I'm Dec do on the look out for a different pedal then

That's actually the pic I was searching for and failed to find! Its better than the one I linked to.

I think the middle one is the first hexagonal shaped pad, which is essentially the same shape as the early Cooper S pedal - many people cut the pad square to 're-create' the S pedal which was better suited to heel and toe in the early cars.

I think I only have a servo one spare though

Edited by graemec on 19th Oct, 2015.