Garage in Coventry area

[Deanmartin]

Hi There, I am a new member brought my P6 in April looking for a good garage in Coventry area to look at my clutch pedal height

 

[The Rovering Member]

Welcome aboard. Assuming your clutch is ok, pedal height is adjustable quite easily with the screw/locknut down on the pedal itself. There is a procedure to be followed regarding recommended height. Harvey may follow on with it shortly. There's no need to pay a garage to do it.

 

[chrisw]

Welcome aboard. Assuming your clutch is ok, pedal height is adjustable quite easily with the screw/locknut down on the pedal itself. There is a procedure to be followed regarding recommended height. Harvey may follow on with it shortly. There's no need to pay a garage to do it.

Just make sure that you pull the carpet back when you do it. A lot of people forget to do this, and half an inch does make a huge difference.

Most local garages won't know how to do this, as the process needs to be followed properly.

 

[The Rovering Member]

Here is a previous post from Harvey. It also details setting the release lever position at the slave cylinder after the pedal height to get correct travel if this isn't the case on your car:

Pull back the carpet and underlay and set the brake pedal height between the bottom of the pedal and the floor to 6 & 7/8"
Set the clutch pedal level with the brake. This is done on the threaded rod into the master cylinder.
Push the clutch operating arm rearward until the release bearing touches the pressure plate and make sure the arm is one spline forward from vertical. Remove the arm and move it on the splines if it's not, and take care not to drop the nut in the bellhousing.
Pull back the slave cylinder boot. Adjust the pushrod so that the piston is about 1" away from the circlip. (Pedal at rest)
Wind the stop bolt all the way in. (Thats the one in the footwell.)
Then get someone to slowly depress the pedal as you look at the piston in the slave. What you need to get is the piston just touching the circlip when the pedal is on the stop, and you achieve this by adjusting the pushrod each time just before the pedal is depressed.
Once you get to the point that putting your foot on the clutch down to the stop makes the piston touch the circlip in the slave, lock the nut on the pushrod.
Then wind the stop bolt up one turn, and lock it with the nut.
Depress the pedal again and make sure there is at least 25thou clearance between the piston and the circlip in the slave.
If not wind the stop bolt up some more a turn at a time.
Refit the carpet and IIRC that's it.

If you do actually have a problem with your clutch operation then detail it here.