YESSSS!!! THE PEDALS ARE IN! IT TOOK ME ALL FREAKING DAY BUT THEY ARE IN! Changing my 85 GS 4 Speed automatic to a 5 spd manual by way of the 83 donor car that I stripped last winter. I decided to finally face the music and put the pedals in today for some strange reason. I have been doing mainly body work for the last couple days and decided to switch it up a little. My car is already gutted because I'm getting ready to paint it, so I didnt have to do much to get to the pedals. Spent about 2 hours trying to get the auto pedal assembly out. Took off a bunch of stuff, some of it wont go back together now. Ya know.. the usual. Got the 83 pedals and compared them to the 85 auto pedals. A word to the wise if anyone attempts this in the future. THE BRACKET ASSEMBLY ON AN 83 IS DIFFERENT THAN AN 84-85!!! THEY LOOK VERY SIMILAR BUT THEY ARE NOT EXACTLY THE SAME! I learned the hard way. Spent another hour and a half maneuvering the 83 pedals and finally got them in. The would line up right and I started getting suspicious. Spent another 30 minutes taking them back out. Measured all the dimensions and turns out one of the bolt holes is about 1/4" different, thus throwing off the whole assembly.

So... I took apart the 83 pedals and mounted them on the 85 bracket that was originally in my car. (Like I should have in the first place). Spent another hour putting them in and finally got it mounted. Everything is good and they feel great is the car. The clutch pedal is nice and stiff. Feels really good.

I have one small question about something that I encountered during today's escapade. There is a small round black canister with a brass colored cap on it that was mounted to the pedal assembly in my 85 GS with a 10mm nut. I can't get the nut back on because I screwed up the threads on the stud when I was battling with the pedal assembly. My question is: Can I just zip tie this thing out of the way or does the pedal bracket act as a chassis ground for this thing? I have no idea what it does or how it works. I just want to make sure that I'm not taking away its ground by zip tieing it up underneath the dash. WHAT DOES THIS THING DO, AND DOES IT NEED TO BE GROUNDED? Picture attached below...

PLEASE let me know if you have any clue what this thing is for. After I decide what to do with it I can put my dash back together tomorrow and be done! Thanks guys!

Jamie

 

No pic man. Doesnt matter. Thats your fuel pump relay. The stud is merely holding it in place, zip tie would be fine. Im 99% sure thats what your talking about.

 

Sorry.. don't know what I was thinking. Here are the pics. The first one is of the pedals installed. Carl, the second is the thing I was talking about needing a ground or not.

 

I think thats it.