[s-cars] My clutch pedal is overdesigned. What should I do?

[Igor Kessel]

QSHIPQ at aol.com wrote:
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> Coincidence?  I don't think so.  What *used* to fail on the type44 cars (all)
> is the clutch pedal itself used to snap (cheap pot steel).

Only in the post-'87 cars, Scott, across the type-44 model range when
Audi replaced the stamped steel clutch pedals with cast Aluminium ones.
I didn't have this problem in my '85 5000s. But it happened in my '89
200TQ twice(!) - coz I was dumb enough to rebuild the clutch master
cylinder instead of replacing it, not realising that the cylinder inner
walls were pitted and the piston was still binding in the bore. Withisn
a week or two WHAM! I snapped a replacement pedal ($94 out ht ewindow).
After which I did finally replace the Master, the Slave, the ubber
pressure hose and the pedal.
Scott Mockry told me that he had snapped the pedal once in his '90
200TQ. And a few other guys indicated the same.

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Igor Kessel
two turbo quattros