Re: 53 Clipper Brake Pedal

Posted by HH56 On 2017/3/8 12:40:12

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Amen. I believe the fitting is on the clutch side on 51-4 whereas it was on the brake side on the Clipper body 41-50s. If qbert's situation is like mine, the fitting was lubed but grease starts pouring out of the nearest pedal long before it moves down a hole in the shaft to reach the pedal at the opposite end. As soon as grease starts coming out the person doing the lube job thinks it has enough and stops. In my case the brake pedal side was fine but the clutch pedal had received little to no lube because the hole was long and filled with hardened grease. Lack of lube had worn the shaft so badly there was a side to side wobble in the pedal. I would not be at all surprised if there is a similar problem on the 53's brake end along with the stiff pedal.

I think that single fitting and hole down the shaft was a bad design by Packard. For mine I drilled and inserted a zerk fitting in each pedal so grease could lube the shaft directly. It effectively greases in the same location -- a space between two bushings -- but instead of a hole feeding grease from the shaft side, the zerk fittings supply it directly.