Return springs

[martybose]

I pulled the floorboard out of my 47 while working on installing my ECI master cylinder conversion. One of Don's photos caught my eye, so I started looking closely at my car and my parts books. Imagine my surprise when I figured out that not only doesn't my car have the return spring on the brake pedal, but I'm also missing the one on the clutch throwout arm!

I'm guessing that the over-center spring on the clutch system has been keeping the pressure off of the throwout bearing, and the spring that is in the stock master cylinder has been returning the brake pedal, but I'd like to get all of the right parts anyway. It's difficult to tell what's missing, since the parts book shows them in isolation instead of connected.

From Don's photos I know I am missing the eyelet that is on the master cylinder pin, the spring itself, and whatever the spring connects to. From my parts book I am apparently missing the clutch lever spring and the bracket that it connects to.

Does anyone have a parts car that has all of this stuff that I could buy? While I'm sure that I could cobble something up, I'd rather not.

Marty

[Don Coatney]

Marty;

My brake pedal return spring originally connected to the brake pedal eyelet and the other end to a hole in the frame side rail. I found with the ECI setup that if I connected the brake pedal return spring to the hole in the frame rail that the spring would rub on the cross mamber. So I connected the spring to the same bracket as the clutch return spring (bracket 6-27-6) and all is well.