Tilt Wheel / Swing Pedal Brake - Continued
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Next, we add the firewall to dash supports and cut in the holes that are need to mount the master cylinder to the fire wall. The firewall to dash supports are need to provide a structure that is strong enough to support the swing pedal assembly and the tilt column. These support are made from 1" square tube with light flat stock welded onto the ends to mate up with the original column support holes already in the dash. By the time this photo was taken these parts had been test fitted many times. If you are good enough to measure everything up and weld it up on the bench then you can stop reading here. The rest of you will need to test fit your brackets many times before you complete this project.

Moving right along, we welded on two pieces of 2" X 6" X 1/4" bar stock onto the dash supports. These two pieces allow for the mounting of the swing pedal via a pivot pin suspended between the two mounting plates. The pin is constructed from a piece of 3/4" round stock. The pedal was welded onto a piece of schedule 80 black steel pipe. Next an actuator arm for the master cylinder was added to the pedal shaft. The actuator was constructed from part of the old emergency brake pedal. Never throw away anything. As you can see in this photo we have really moved forward and even have the master cylinder test fitted. Still left to do is the pedal stop bolt and drilling the holes for the column support.

This photo shows the assembly in pretty much the completed stage. You can see the addition of the pedal stop and column support. The column support was constructed by cutting of the original mounting tabs and welding on 2 1/2" flat stock. The bracket was then placed between the the support and secured by bolting through the dash support and column support bracket. Notches where cut into the bracket to allow for positioning and room for the cover that will hide all this wonderful steel work. Later, we found that only one bolt was need on each side. This allowed the column to pivot, making the positioning through the firewall much easier. After the floor plate is added the column will be solidly mounted with no play what so ever. Next well move onto the finish work. [more]