I am starting my early research for the swapping of drivetrains between my wrecked 240D manual into my 300D parts car.
Seems like I might have underestimated the "pain in the arse" factor on pedal removal/swap. I knew I would have to run the hyd. lines for the clutch, but as I'm upside down looking up towards the pedal mounting area, I can't really tell where the clear cut removal points are. Does anyone have an explanation and maybe pictures on pedal removal? Kamil's thread didn't show it, and I'm fixing to go through RLeo's thread also.
Moving the Camaro out of the garage over to my sainted mother's garage to have some covered workspace with a concrete floor underneath. Rock parking areas are OK, but not conducive to jacks and jack stands......
Thanks yall......

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'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

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It has been awhile now since I pulled a pedal set from a junkyard, but I am pretty sure it is held on ONLY by the four nuts that hang off the studs of the brake booster. Then there is a strut that just wedges behind the back of the dash. Not too hard, if you can see what you are doing. I always use a couple of those floppy extensions on a 1/4" drive ratchet with a 13mm socket.

Rick

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80 300SD (129k mi) 82 240D stick (193k mi)77 240D auto - stick to be (153k mi) 85 380SL (145k mi) 89 BMW 535i 82 Diesel Rabbit Pickup (374k mi) 91 Jetta IDI Diesel (155k mi) 81 VW Rabbit Convertible Diesel 70 Triumph Spitfire Mk III (63kmi)66 Triumph TR4a IRS (90k mi)67 Ford F-100 (??)

my indie ran the clutch line thru the hole in the floor where the kick down switch formerly resided.

tom w

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

That is good info yall, and a good future tip. Also thanks for the info from RLeo via PM. Also, the throttle situation on a '77 model is quite different from most of our other W123's. Gonna have to deal with that too. Will prolly start a thread to photo document swap and deal with any questions.
Started up Camaro today and got it out of garage, just to find out that I have little to no brakes. They are manual brakes to start with, so any degredation in performance is huge. Not sure where the leak is yet, but no puddles...... Think it master cyl at firewall. Uffffff.........

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

Can't help much because my memory is not clear, but I did remove the clutch and brake pedal and all related parts at a junkyard with a very limited set of tools. Pulled the tranny, flywheel and clutch also. I think the whole job took less than 2 hrs in total. I don't remember any difficult bolts.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

Take a look at the last page of my turbo swap thread for a possible solution to the throttle linkage problem.

617 Turbo->240D 4-speed questions

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1982 300SD - 232K miles - Wife's Daily Driver

1986 560SL - Wife's red speed machine

I can't figure out how to get the top of the clutch/brake pedal assembly from its metal U-clasp attatched to the back of the dash. Anyone know?

I dont remember any U clasp other than one right where the plumbing to the clutch slave was. And it was just a normal bolt/screw.

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#1991 300D Nearly Perfect
#1994 E320 Cabriolet
#1995 E320 Touring
#1985 300D Sedan
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I see, I was missing that the top U Clasp is attached to a C clasp, it pulls right out if you pull towards the driver's seat. Thanks for the confirmation.