C4 to T5 Swap

I got a '85 World Class T5 from a Mustang GT. Instead of going with a clutch cable that will stretch or break or hydraulic master/slave system that requires stiffing the firewall and that it is lazy on the return, I decided to stay with mechanical linkage to keep things simple.

I got the pedals from a '74 Maverick at the junkyard but the car was not in the yard when I went back to get the z-bar and flywheel. A few months later I found the z-bar and flywheel in a '73 250 six Maverick.

The pivot holes on the z-bar showed a lot of wear so I welded up the holes and re-drilled them. New bushings and adjustment swivel were bought to replace the old to make it good as new. New plastic bushings were also installed on the pedals.

I was wishing I could install the pedals on my old pedal support but somewhere before '74 the automatic transmission pedal support changed from a bushing pivot to a bolt pivot design. The later design also doesn't have the spacer inside the channel and this made the sleeve on the pedal to be about a 1/4 in. longer. I parted out a '71 automatic Maverick earlier this year and it had the bushing style support that I needed.

I didn't install the assistant spring on the pedal assembly because I will be using a diaphragm style pressure plate. After locating the factory dimple on the firewall to drill the hole for the clutch pedal pushrod, a 1-1/2 in. hole was made with a hole saw for the rod and dust boot.

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