Project 3P, Part 14: How to Adjust a Stupidly High Fiat 128 Brake Pedal (Fiat 128 3P Restoration)
Chris' 128 sedan for attention. (You're probably tired of seeing P3P by now!) Followers of P3P's progress may remember that brake pedal adjustment was on the agenda. The pedal was way too tall at about 20 mm above the height of the clutch and significantly further for the throttle, making heel-toe downshift blipping impossible. This was dangerous, too; the possibility of not being able to hit the anchors quickly enough in an emergency was significant. This shows how high the brake pedal was when compared to the clutch. The brake / throttle disparity was far greater! Why this was so is anyone's guess! Mine is that there's a non-original part in the system - maybe a close-enough-is-good-enough brake booster from another car - for instance. Either way, something didn't quite measure up. An inspection of the set-up that transfers the right-hand-drive pedal action to the left-side-mounted brake booster failed to find the splined shaft that I was...