Unique Products has a replacement shaft that guarantees the clutch cable will NOT fall off or wear out from the rather awkward design of the pedal assembly. You can find this advertised on the Samba.com or look for their website. For $25 you get a new shaft that allows the clutch cable to be bolted to the pedal assembly in a way so it spins freely and thus doesn't wear out or fall off. However, like anything else with this car there are complications. The design of the new shaft is based upon the original German design, EMPI on the other hand seems to have altered from this. The EMPI shaft is longer and the pedal assembly uses an extra washer. The peg hole in their shaft design is slightly larger. I improvised with a bolt that made a tight fit. Great idea, worth the money but needed a little "jerry-rigging."
Above you can see the original shaft below the newly installed shaft. I had removed the pedals because my they were grinding into my fiberglass pan. The EMPI pedals seems to be somewhat larger on the bottom than the originals, plus the pan wasn't lined up right. I used a grinder to ground down the bottom of the pedals and the tabs - about a 1/4 inch.
Naturally when I installed the pedals, the block of wood was now too loose. I placed a L bracket on the block which made up the difference and did a better job of holding the block in place and the pedals don't scrape the floor now. Another one off the list of To Do items.
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