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Yeah, I dropped it down a bit and left room for one.

Doing a little test fitting tonight on the Jeep pedals, dash with the gauges in, and shifter location. I was worried the back of the gauges would hit the pedal assembly but after some strategic slicing it all works out good. Sitting on a milk crate everything feels like its in a comfortable location. Now to make it all permanant.

Ah yes, milk crate, the universal seat

The pedals look good.

I gotta admit... this car just makes me smile! Good Job.

Pedals look great, but are you going to make the milk crate permanent or were you referring to something else??????

way back in 88 while building my 38 I bolted the milkcrate to the floor.

well, they ARE cheap and i'd never have to worry about getting the upholstery dirty.

Kinda hard to lean back on a milk crate, though! When I was a kid, my dad & I built a 39 Ford. At this stage of the project, I used a lawn chair so I could drive it around the back yard....

Originally Posted by randyr

Kinda hard to lean back on a milk crate, though! When I was a kid, my dad & I built a 39 Ford. At this stage of the project, I used a lawn chair so I could drive it around the back yard....

Nothing wrong with a lawn chair, Randy! Plus it gives you a built in cupholder!

These Jeep pedal worked out even better than I had hoped; all I had to do was cut about 3” off the front, drill a couple of mounting holes under the dash, and it really lined up nice. Im using the Dakota slave cylinders for the clutch; I just need to weld a tab on the pedal arm to mount the pushrod. The master cylinder lined up perfect with the brake pedal.

".... These Jeep pedal worked out even better than I had hoped...."

It looks like it's really working out well.

I remember when I did the swing pedal for the 37, I used a bracket and pedal stub from a mid 70s Dodge truck, and it almost just fell into place. Yours is going to be a neat setup.

Yeah, luckily there's lots of room under the dash on these.
I had to make a couple of filler pieces for the dash ends. They need some finish work but it’s a good start.

I made a trip to the boneyard today to get some brake parts, a driveshaft, and other misc stuff. The Explorer front brake rotors slide right over the Plymouth hubs and the bolts line up; just need to build a bracket to hold the caliper. Also got the dash mods finished up and in primer.

Originally Posted by falconvan

I made a trip to the boneyard today to get some brake parts, a driveshaft, and other misc stuff. The Explorer front brake rotors slide right over the Plymouth hubs and the bolts line up; just need to build a bracket to hold the caliper. Also got the dash mods finished up and in primer.

Did you know beforehand that the rotors would mount that easily?? That's cool!
The dash came out really nice too. What color will it be?

I saw this brake swap on the P15 D24 site; one of the guys over there came up with it and it's very cool. Cheap, easy, and all boneyard parts except for the caliper mounting bracket which he posted a drawing of so anyone was welcome to use it.

As far as color, my grandson is hooked on the orange idea so I'm painting the dash and firewall orange while it's apart. When I get around to painting the whole car I'll match it.

My wife and I both took off yesterday; she's starting to work on her crafts for Christmas and I decied to do a marathon in the garage. I started at 6am and wrapped it up about 8 last night but I got a lot done.
I put some 1/2' rubber insulators between the motor and trans mounts and ended up having to raise the trans tunnel center a bit for clearance. It was pretty close anyway so i figured that was coming. I pulled the motor back out and welded all the unneeded holes in the firewall and gave it a skim coat of filler, built a front frame notch for the crank pulley, weled up everything on the floor that had been temporarily tacked together, and finally primered and painted the whole floor.