[s-cars] Clutch pedal broke

[tedebearp at yahoo.com]

Did you use the ties to keep the spring compressed while removing it?

Thanks, I'm going to try tackling the job.  Worst case is I have the car towed to the shop, which I'd have to do anyway.

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On Oct 12, 2013, at 11:42 AM, chris chambers <fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> Ditto to PITA but doable task.
> I used a vise and plastic cable ties to keep the spring compressed.
> I simply cut the ties after assemblying.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Chris
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> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 11:12 AM EDT McCall, Randy wrote:
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>> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:05:51 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com>
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>> '92 S4, 183k miles. At 174k, the clutch was replaced, along with pressure plate, flywheel, master cylinder, slave cylinder, etc.  I looked under the dash and the pedal is definitely broken. <br/><br/>The pedal effort didn't seem any higher than usual so I'm attributing the failure to fatigue cracking in the cast aluminum pedal rather than high clutch effort. <br/><br/>I'm debating whether to do this replacement myself or have the car towed to the shop. How long does it take and how annoying is it?  I've looked at a couple of writeups on Audiworld and it sounds like the spring is a pain to deal with.<a href="http://overview.mail.yahoo.com?.src=iOS"><br/><br/>Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</a>
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>> Ted- I had to do this repair two years ago at about 150K.  I happened to have a spare pedal from my wrecked S-6 parts bin, so tackled it on my own - a pain in the butt repair due to the location, and the over-center spring assembly was definitely the hardest part of the process.  I took the front seat out to get my old fat body some room to work, and most importantly, made some two custom "C"-clips out of some heavier gauge spare bicycle spokes I had to keep the spring and end cap holders compressed.  I'm not sure if I could have done this job without something like that.  I put the spring and two plastic keepers in my vice, compressed them, and put the two "C-clips"s that I had made on the outside of the plastic caps and then relaxed the vice.  That kept the assembly short enough to fit the plastic forks into the pivot points once the new pedal was back in there.  Once in place I just levered the C-spring clips off and it was like magic.
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>> Hope that helps!
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