You should definitley swap out the stock quadrant for the aluminum piece while you have the pedals out. The pedals are a major PITA. Do yourself a favor and do the quadrant while they're out so you never have to look at pedals again. Cause that's the way I feel about them after getting them out, then in.
To get the pedals out, you must:
- Take out the entire center consoll (use a Chilton's or something for all the minor details, screw locations & so forth)
- Take off all of the plastics underneath the steering column, including the metal plate.
- Take the bezel off of the gauges, then remove the gauges. (I had to do this to re-route the speedo cable....it's not bad at all)
- Unclip all of the wires from the steering column.
- Take off the bracket for the hood release and get that out of the way
- Remove the drivers seat
- Take out the 4 remaining bolts holding up the steering column & drop it out of the way. Just make sure all the wires are disconnected first. It will kind of hang there after that.
- Now you can remove the brake light switch and disconnect the brake pedal.
- On the upper section of the pedal assembly there's, I think, 1 bolt & 1 nut to remove. Take those out.
- Now I believe you only have the 4 nuts holding the assembly to the firewall. HINT: Instead of messing around with a ratchet to get the firewall nuts off (because there's not much room to maneuver) use a really long (24") extension with a ratchet. This allows you to have the ratchet out from under the dash, and have plenty of room to move.
- If I remeber correctly, that's it, now you just have to "caress" them out of there, and "really caress" the new ones in. I had someone help me to move the column where I needed it, because I had to move it all around.
GOOD LUCK!!! I'm not sure if I remebered every detail, so anyone else can add things I forgot.
my whole set up cost me 500 bucks.....only because my buddy cut me a deal. ane the clutch wa new and the tranny is a rebuilt t-5 world class...i know i got a deal
I just listed everything that I moved out of the way. You need to take out the consol because you have to cut about an inch of metal for the shifter to fit. And everything else I listed is what I did to change the pedals.
I took the pedals out of my donor car a week earlier so I cut some time on swap day. The car I took them out of was a donor car so I pretty much cut everything out of the way & had them out in about an hour.
To take out the auto pedals & put the others in; about 2-3hours. A real pain.
As for the difference in the car.....HUGE!!! I only had a stock AOD, but this feels like a completely different car. I must say that it is pretty weird getting in you car for the 1st time after it's been an auto the whole time I've owned it.