Bought a 73 Grabber today

Discussion in 'General Maverick/Comet' started by Tlowery643, Nov 12, 2010.

  1. Ryan

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    I know they werent available on that year. Just didnt know you could get a manual pedal assembly that works with factory power brakes. Must have had to modify the manual pedals to match the power brake pedal rod. or maybe use the power brake assembly and the clutch pedal can slide into the assembly like it does on the automatic pedals. either way i haven't seen it done with both on the same car. It would be easy with a hydraulic clutch but you can see this car has a clutch cable.
     
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    Customization was done and I actually am not happy with it. Brakes are not working properly, bleed brakes and it loses pedal, replaced bad wheel cylinder and master cylinder and still have problem. So apparently booster is bad and I dont like the looks of the booster, or the big shock tower brace and because of the shock tower brace clutch cable comes into firewall under large shocktower brace and it cant be adjusted there so going to remove the Booster go back to manual brake setup and while doing this the car came with new calipers, caliper brackets, spindles and rotors so going to put disk on front. Many thanks to Earl for all the help this weekend installing new Holley Carb, Hurst Competition plus shifter, and fighing with brake and clutch cable problems.
     
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    Twas a pleasure! Lots of fun working on this stuff.
     
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    EARL your a right on kind of guy!
     

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