Our 69 Yenko Chevelle restoration

[Postsedan]

Dan

[SS427]

The clutch/brake pedal was a little more involved and took a little more time and effort. The same process was used in that we soaked the assembly in Evapo-Rust first, cleaned with hot soapy water and then sealed it. The pedal assemblies were blasted and then sealed after first dipping in black lacquer paint. The inspection marks were all replaced exactly as found. Many hours restoring this part which again is why restorations are expensive if you want them done right.

After posting these pictures a very observant reader pointed out to me that the original clutch/brake pedal pads are different than these, what I thought were very nice reproductions and were missing the boarder around them. So now the search is on to find mint original or NOS brake/clutch pedal pads with the small boarder around them. This is the kind of critiquing that I promote on this site as it is how we all learn so thank you for that input.

[Postsedan]

Dan

[SS427]

The steering column was done over the coarse of last week at night and on Christmas morning. These usually take us about 8-10 hours if they are in good shape. I can buy these restored for considerably less money from some outside sources but again, I would prefer to do ours and our customer's in house. Everything was duplicated as found including paint markings and decals. Note the ignition switch has the red painted mark on it which I rarely if ever see on 1970 Chevelles. Like all parts of our restorations, we rebuild EVERY component even the electrical switches are disassembled, cleaned and relubed.

[Ryan1969Chevelle]

As my grandfather used to say in leu of swearing:

HOLY-SNAPPEN-OLE-SNAP-ON-A-VICH!!!!

Rick, these parts are so similar to my Cutlass, I plan to restore each item as time goes by a few per winter, column, emergency brake, etc.

Amazing!!!

Ryan W31

[Postsedan]

Dan

[Postsedan]

Yes, Similar....but different.

Dan

[cheveslakr]

Super job Rick! Since you asked, my KC car had a blue insp. mark on the clutch pedal, and a purple daub on the upper brake pedal. Appears all else is exactly as you've pictured.
On the column, those aluminum washer inserts that have the yellow crash indicator thingys, did you squirt something in there or use a yellow paint? Asking because if I was to assume, I'd say they were filled after the column was installed to get the position correct. I've seen that yellow mold spew out between the aluminum washer and the metal bracket. Didn't know if there was anything available to duplicate this???

Jerry

[SS427]

Originally Posted by jer

On the column, those aluminum washer inserts that have the yellow crash indicator thingys, did you squirt something in there or use a yellow paint? Asking because if I was to assume, I'd say they were filled after the column was installed to get the position correct.
Jerry

The yellow injected plastic was actually used to hold the shim mounts in place and designed to break loose in case of an accident. When I restored them I heated them up and pushed the plastic out, restored the complete unit and then injected hot melt plastic back into them to hold them. I then had to paint the yellow over the plastic as I could not find yellow hot melt. These were originally injected as a unit before they were installed on the column.

[big gear head]

Rick, I noticed that you cut out the seal with an exacto knife. Here is something that I found very interesting and might save you a lot of time, and make higher quality parts too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hejUzvfGuY8&t=286s
My wife actually got one of these for Christmas. I had found this video a few weeks earlier and I was excited when I found out she was getting one. When I mentioned how useful it would be to me she got that attitude and said that I would not be using it.