Installing MustangSteve's Clutch Cable

In an effort to fully modernize the mustang, I decided to install MustangSteve's homemade clutch cable modification. The kit includes ball bearings for the pedal shaft, the clutch cable, two home-made adapters, and several washers. My kit was missing one washer, requiring me to go to ACE hardware once, and apparently, no kits come with two necassary 5/16" one inch bolts and washers, requiring a to return to ACE.

Anyway, the project requires to take apart the brake pedal assembly which took about an hour or two. Then, an adaptor is welded onto the top of the clutch pedal assembly. MustangSteve instructs in the supplied instruction sheet, and I qoute: "The cable retainer bolt goes to the rear." And so, as expected I welded the adaptor with the bolt to the rear. Since English is my second language, I presumably misunderstood the aforementioned instructions due to my poor English level. Not! It turns out the bolt must be in the front! So I had to grind off the rare, and beautiful weld that I paintstakingly made and reweld a shabby one instead. That took another hour or so. I think he meant the bolt goes to the rear of the car, i.e. the front of the pedal...whatever.

After that, I had to drill a hole for the cable to pass though the firewall. Unfortunately, the cable rides high, requiring some cutting/banging/bending some metal to make it fit. See picture:

The roller bearings were pretty straighforward to install. Remove the old ones, weld new housing and spacers, and slip on bearings. The only easy part of the installation.


Finally, as predicted by MustangSteve's website, I have the wrong headers, which means the clutch cable rubs along the headers which undoubtedly will cause it to melt in due time. I'm going to wrap the headers with some heat shields and cross my fingers. Wish me luck!