2001 F350 7.3 - Clutch Pedal Fix This is a MUST mod, Swivel Bushing - Rod fail Repair

All right, so here's what I'm going to use to replace my current clutch linkage situation because there's like a plastic piece in there and those usually break and people just go ahead and replace the plastic piece. But I'm going to go ahead and fix it with this swivel and we're going to see if we can make it permanent fix and never worry about the clutch pedal again. Pick up an engine for this. It happened again. It happened again. My clutch just dropped to the ground. Actually, let's keep going. I'm not going to use my clutch. I'm just going to shift gears without using my clutch. It just dropped to the ground and I'm driving with Matthew and Matthew's recording. Matthew, is this fun? Yeah? Yeah. Okay, so what happened is the rod disconnected from the clutch pedal and now my clutch just dropped to the ground. I was able to kind of reconnect it on the previous stop. I just got to find some zip ties. I'm just going to zip tie it together so it doesn't slide out of the pin. But right now, there's not going to be any stop lights, any stop signs, so I'm going to basically drive without a clutch for now. Right, Matthew? You ready? Yeah. And then hopefully I can find some zip ties. Just like this guy slowing down. Matthew, you see that car in the video? Yeah. Basically, I'm just slowing down with the clutch. I mean with the clutch, with the with downshifting on that. Okay, now we got yellow. I have to pull over because I can't start. Okay, I'll pull over here. Okay, let's see here. Papa, I wonder why no one's helping you because there's lots of cars here that stop a little. Well, they don't know what the problem is. They can't fix it. They don't know. They don't even know what the clutch truck is. All right, so it's going to pop out again, I'm sure, in a minute here. Okay, I felt it. Ah, here we go. Again. Again. I'll pull over in a minute, see if I can find something that I can put in place for now. Until I get home, I'll get some zip ties. Maybe you could use tape if you have tape in here. Well, basically right now, I'm going to go ahead and get some zip ties and tie that up the best I can. That's what my fix looks like right now, right there. Zip tie, wire, and that's holding that pin in place right here. So, I'm going to be pulling on the dash anyway, so I'll show you guys a better look of exactly what I'm going to do with the linkage and I'm going to get that fixed and never have a clutch problem ever again. All right, so here's the clutch lever with the dash out and basically what I was doing when I was pressing the clutch in and out and then go ahead and pop right off like that and they just snap off and the clutch would pretty much drop all the way to the floor like that. So, I had to pull the clutch back, slide this on. Well, anyways, you guys get the idea. I'm going to have to zip tie it to make sure it stays on like that and then basically keep doing it, keep doing it, pop off, and do the same thing. So, what I'm going to do right now is I'm going to pop this off. What I need to do is get this lever out and leave this thing. You have to slide this bracket off. There's like a little pin right there. It's a little easier with two hands. There we go. So, this slides out this way forward and then this there's like a spring thing in there. It's a little rusty so I'm probably going to have to clean this up but there's a spring in there and that spring goes on this little groove right here. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to get this guy out and then we're going to cut it right here somewhere and mold in the new piece. Oh, and actually we're going to have to remove this thing as well. We're going to have to grind this down, get this out, put a new bolt in here. Whoa, there it is. It flew away. Matthew's over here with us. Hey, Matthew. You having fun? Yeah. Is this the funnest thing you've ever done? No. No? Come on. Where'd it go? Oh, there it is. It rolled on my back. Let's slide this out. There's a plastic washer. Okay, like that. Yeah, I know you can. But can I? Could I do it? This? Yeah, yeah, just like that. There's like a little metal ring. I can't get it out. No? Okay, bye. See you later. We did some more research and the way to remove this rod, basically it snaps inside with a little plastic retainer inside. And the only way to really get to the retainer on the inside is get a little ballpoint pen and we cut it, make it into a little tube and then we slice it in half. And now, so what we're going to do is going to put this on here and slide it inside and that's going to release the little clip on the inside and then we'll be able to pull this out. While separating it, put it up. Yep, let's do it like that. Let's see if that slides on there. Yep, there we go. Okay, so now we slide off the pliers, slide it in there like so. And that should, let's see. Okay, so that goes inside and that should be sliding in there. Come on. Okay, slide it with the pliers maybe. Inside. Nope. Okay, that's not going to work. Let's try, let's try to put the, let's try to put the clutch pedal back on and see if that works. We can, we can maybe have more leverage that way. So we got the clutch pedal in, snap that in here like that and then we're going to put this on here. Okay, so I'm going to try to kind of press it with, press and slide basically. Let's see. I think we've got it. Did we get it? I think we got it. I think we got it. Yep, we did. And there we go. We don't need this anymore. And that's what we got. Basically, the little retainer clip on the inside snaps in and holds this in place. If I was to like yank this and you know, I probably would have broken the little, little clip on the inside. Here's the original one next to this swivel bushing rod extension thingy. I'll have the link down below in the description. It's pretty cheap. It was like $12 or $15. So basically what I end up doing is lining this up as center as possible to the factory one. I put a washer in there so it's not angled and then I lined this up like that. And then I went ahead and drew a line right there where the edges, and then I measured the hole on the inside with that same pin that I cut to disengage the clip right here. And then I got the distance from there. That's where I need to cut right there. I went ahead and drew the original one. So I get the exact distance that I need. So yeah, I'm going to try to make it exactly as possible. I'm going to cut right here and I'm going to go ahead and grind the edge a little bit here and see if it fits in there. And then see if I can just use this little bolt right here to tighten it down or if I'll need to weld outside the edge here. Just a little bit so it fits a little better. And now I went ahead when I put it in there, I marked the spot, drilled a little groove in there. So we got this little guy. It's going to go in there. Squish it in there. It's not going to go anywhere like so. Okay like that. I'm going to put a thread locker on here and then I'm going to put thread locker on this bolt as well. That's going to go into the pedal. What some guys do is they put this in here like that and then they put this swivel on here. And to show you what's going to happen is once you tighten it, it's going to go all the way to the edge and then the edge is going to jam behind here. So when you're actually pressing the pedal, it's going to snap the rod. And I've seen somebody on YouTube actually do this and not grind down the swivel and then this thing broke. So I had to re-weld it over here. But to prevent that, what I'm going to do is I'm going to put a washer here like that. Put this on there like this. So now when it's tightened, there's still room. There's still a small gap right there. There's still going to be some room once this is tightened and it's not going to seize behind the pedal and it's not going to break. So that's the one thing that some guys I see don't do this. They just bolt it down straight to the pedal and they're going to have problems. So I'm going to do this and then I'm going to do the lock washer and I'm going to do thread lock around here. Tighten this down. There's a swivel that's not going to go anywhere. It's going to be perfect and I'm going to install this back in the truck. I got everything installed, put it back together and it's working pretty good. No issues, no binding. I mean it's a pretty close fit. So if you're going to do one of these upgrades, do a washer right here or grind the edge. A little rod right here on the edge and that will give you more clearance. That way it's not going to seize up right here and break the rod when you're trying to press the clutch pedal. And she's good to go. Is this possible to do it with the dash in? Possibly, maybe. There's going to be a lot of cussing and I wouldn't suggest it. I think it's actually a lot easier and less stressful if you just go ahead and pop the dash off. It's not that bad. There's like five or six plugs, a few bolts and she comes right out. Just need a little bit help. But I had to do the mod and I was doing the dash swap anyways. So I went ahead and did it while the dash was out. So guys, I hope you enjoyed this video. Hopefully it will help you out in the future. If you've got any questions, let me know in the comments. Subscribe and we'll see you in the next one.