new gas pedal, one that stays attached! Options

[JayB]

After taking out the pedal assembly to machine some new bushings and clean it up a bit, i decided to get rid of the horrible gas pedal situation while i was at it. so i came up with this...




I wanted to keep everything together as one unit, no more of this bolting the pedal down separately stuff. As you can see its a work in progress. Heres the pedal design:



Ill machine it out of aluminum hopefully this weekend.
the best part: a real tie rod that has no chance of falling off (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
if there's interest, i would do a whole rebuild of other peoples' assemblies with UHM bushings and this new pedal.

unless of course no one else besides me is having problems with theres, which may very well be the case!

[JayB]

i suppose if enough people wanted it. It would probably be a real pain to program though.

[nsr-jamie]

i suppose if enough people wanted it. It would probably be a real pain to program though.

I don' think it would be that hard to make a program for it to run in NC code....our CAM programs take care of all that for you and its 2D so should not be that hard. You will need to make 2 programs for it, first from the bottom and add some tap drills for it to fit to some kind of holder or jig for the second machining process when you flip it over and machine it again for the second run...its hard to tell in the picture but if its a flat 2D pedal should be simple to make, if its a pedal with an arc or any 3D work you will need to machine a larger piece of material (alluminum?) and would increase cost more but the programing would still be quite easy.