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Thanks to help on here with photos etc I spent the afternoon in the garage removing the pedal box and bending the pedals. As you can see from the before and after photos, the pedals are now more evenly spaced and feel a lot better to use, I can now get my feet firmly on the clutch and brake pedals and the side of my foot doesn`t catch the dipswitch bracket. A little dissapointed that the pad on the brake has ended up slightly  askew, I thought I had got it straighter than that, but it doesn`t notice in operation. Thats another job off the list.

Ralph

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Ralph - to straighten the foot/pad on the brake pedal, get the largest adjustable wrench which will fit in the available space and close up the jaws on the main arm just under the foot/pad and twist it straight - you should be able to do it in situ without damage.

Cheers Rich

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23 minutes ago, rcreweread said:

Ralph - to straighten the foot/pad on the brake pedal, get the largest adjustable wrench which will fit in the available space and close up the jaws on the main arm just under the foot/pad and twist it straight - you should be able to do it in situ without damage.

Cheers Rich

I will give it a go tomorrow,

40 minutes ago, BlueTR3A-5EKT said:

Good outcome

Peter W

PS. Pretending to be a TR2 with those ribbed pedal pads!

If I remember correctly, the "T" pads were out of stock at the time (last year during lockdown) so ended up with the ribbed ones.

Cheers, Ralph

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49 minutes ago, BlueTR3A-5EKT said:

Good outcome

Peter W

PS. Pretending to be a TR2 with those ribbed pedal pads!

Also as fitted to Italias ;)

Stuart.

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14 minutes ago, stuart said:

Also as fitted to Italias ;)

Stuart.

And the throttle pedal on Innsbruck, which is why they remained available for so long from the factory parts dept.as that range of cars was ‘current’.

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In the photos above, there's a considerable gap between brake and throttle pedals, so whilst everything is dismantled there's the opportunity to make heel-and-toe operation easier by reducing the gap.

The addition of a Paddy Hopkirk plate to the throttle pedal also helps.  As Paddy's original plates must be very rare, one can make something similar from a small piece of alloy - I did so for my TR2 in the 1960s.

Ian Cornish

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9 minutes ago, Lebro said:

I "heel & toe" by just twisting my foot to press on the (standard) throttle pedal with the RH side of my shoe - easy & works well.

Bob.

Which is exactly the origin of the term ;)

Stuart.

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1 hour ago, ianc said:

In the photos above, there's a considerable gap between brake and throttle pedals, so whilst everything is dismantled there's the opportunity to make heel-and-toe operation easier by reducing the gap.

The addition of a Paddy Hopkirk plate to the throttle pedal also helps.  As Paddy's original plates must be very rare, one can make something similar from a small piece of alloy - I did so for my TR2 in the 1960s.

Ian Cornish

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Try the specialist Mini spares people.  New.   Just over £8.00.  https://www.somerfordmini.co.uk/throttle-pedal-extension-paddy-hopkirk
 

Ebay will sell you an used one for £29.99 !    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154197988456?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=7101533165274578&mkcid=2&itemid=154197988456&targetid=4585169652812019&device=t&mktype=&googleloc=&poi=&campaignid=412354547&mkgroupid=1305120599331881&rlsatarget=pla-4585169652812019&abcId=9300541&merchantid=87779&msclkid=4ba564ef459f1ceac29c053ed68b0e30

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3 hours ago, stuart said:

Which is exactly the origin of the term ;)

Stuart.

Ah but in my case it is not the heel which hits the throttle, it's the side of the shoe, about half way along ^_^

Bob

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42 minutes ago, Lebro said:

Ah but in my case it is not the heel which hits the throttle, it's the side of the shoe, about half way along ^_^

Bob

Me too, the heel is too clumsy for graduated throttle application. I have an additional plate about the same width as the throttle pedal attached to it. Then you apply “toe and roll onto the throttle” which you apply with the side of the foot.

Mick Richards

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