How to adjust clutch pedal...

[97GTSTANG]

The clutch pedal on my 97 is very high, what can i do to lower it so it doesnt engage so far up? I have heard of quadrant and firewall adjuster, what are those exactly. My clutch cable is stock, the clutch is aftermarket.

Thanks

 

[ChillPhatCat]

The clutch pedal on my 97 is very high, what can i do to lower it so it doesnt engage so far up? I have heard of quadrant and firewall adjuster, what are those exactly. My clutch cable is stock, the clutch is aftermarket.

Thanks

The clutch quadrant is a "quarter circle" piece that attaches the clutch cable to the clutch pedal, aftermarket units are typically made of aluminum and remove the auto adjust feature of the stock setup which is a ratcheting device disigned to bring up the slack as the cable stretches over time.

When you remove this adjusting feature you have to get a firewall adjuster which you run the cable through and attach to your firewall. All a firewall adjuster is is a large screw mechanism that you turn by hand to pull up the slack on the cable just as the original ratcheting mechanism would have done. The end result is that the firewall adjuster gives you a little say in where the engagement point is, and in my case I think it removed about 2 inches of engagement travel... that is to say doesn't really reduce the height of the pedal, but the pedal doesn't offer any noticeable resistance for a couple inches of it's travel.

 

[SteedaGT9150]

i know im my old fox you could put the car in nuetral and pull on the clutch pedal until you hear it click, im not 100 percent if you can do it with our cars tho...

 

[ChillPhatCat]

i know im my old fox you could put the car in nuetral and pull on the clutch pedal until you hear it click, im not 100 percent if you can do it with our cars tho...

Yeah that's how you adjust them in these cars, but that doesn't really do anything for the obnoxiously high pedal, it just takes up what minute amount of slack there is in the cable.

 

[97GTSTANG]

so there is no way i can lower the pedal to be closer to the floor? its really very high up. it engages when its almost all the way up.

 

[ChillPhatCat]

so there is no way i can lower the pedal to be closer to the floor? its really very high up. it engages when its almost all the way up.

Well, like I said... the aftermarket system will move the engagement point a couple inches, which will make the pedal feel like it is a lot closer to the floor.


I bought one of these when I got the quadrant and adjuster, but I never went to the trouble of installing it because I had such a vast improvement from just the quadrant/adjuster. I don't know how much it will help... I hear you might get an inch out of it:
Clutch Pedal Height Adjuster, 1994-04 [MMCL-7] : Maximum Motorsports, the Latemodel Mustang Performance Suspension Leader!