Looking for BOOT (ACCELERATOR SHAFT): C1VV 9A873-B....

[Dan Szwarc]

Detroit Deviant makes this among other Lincoln 61-69 gear. https://echelondesignworks.godaddysites ... t-assembly.

I bought one. Haven't taken the time to put it on yet.

29 dollars US.

Rob

Definitely a bargain. I'd buy if I needed one.

[TonyC]

I'm saving that link. You never know when one will come in handy.

---Tony

[LithiumCobalt]

Now that I know of this I have to check my car to see if it is missing. What exactly is its function again?

[TonyC]

To keep anything liquid from going into the cab through the accelerator--water from the ground, oil from the engine, transmission fluid from the gearbox, etc. (ask me how I know this). Without that, your floor and carpet will get soiled.

---Tony

[papawayne]

Actually we know a lot of things we wish we didn't, don't we? At least what we know can now save someone else from "Knowing"...Wayne

[John Mc]

I ordered one 5 minutes ago for my '61 Sedan.

[mge825y]

When restoring my '63 LCC, the only real rust I found in the whole car was in the driver's floor pan under the accelerator pedal and in bottom of the gusset. When I started to troubleshoot this issue, I found the remnants of the accelerator shaft and the boot. The boot was half gone, and what was left was hard like brittle plastic. The shaft and accelerator pedal were rusted so badly that I felt them too compromised to re-use. The moral of the story is, I feel certain that the busted boot became a funnel for water into that hollow frame "channel" when the PO drove in the rain. The water brought the rust.

I bought a boot, a boot bracket and a gently used accelerator pedal and shaft from the Usual Suspects. I wire brushed and vacuumed out the rust in the interior channel where the shaft runs. Then sprayed the Eastwood Interior frame coating in there. I sanded and painted the area under the car too. Plus, I wire wheeled the floor pan and used a rust converter product on it. Then came back over the few pin holes with some metal epoxy (yes - JB Weld). Used some Eastwood seam sealer putty in the seams where the original filler had come loose or come out (or got inadvertently helped out by my aggressive wire wheelin'). After it cured, (like bone dried 7-day cured) I painted everything with a couple of coats of POR-15 all around, and then re-assembled everything.

It was an unexpected diversion that probably took me 3 to 4 weeks to get right. But a good use of time for good piece of mind (did that rhyme?)

Just glad I found it before it got worse to the point that I'd have to replace the floor pan or cause a mishap while driving.

Mark

[mge825y]

And I bought 4 of the cool Lincoln logo courtesy light lens covers from Detroit Deviant. My original ones have faded to a dull yellow. I know the new ones aren't original but to me they are a classy looking deviation.

[John Mc]

I ordered one 5 minutes ago for my '61 Sedan.

Well here are some shots of the boot that I recently installed. It all went went well, but I do have some concern that while I made sure I have free pedal/rod movement, there is a lot of things going on where that boot comes out of the floorpan, like the speedometer cable. Just want to be damned sure that rod does not get hung up on something, or you will be in for a very interesting ride!

I used the new metal plate that came with the boot, but did re-use the original screws.

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[LithiumCobalt]

Checked on my car a few weeks back. Astonishingly, original still intact. Figured it would be shredded to Hell by now.

[John Mc]

Well even though my ‘61 will probably never see a wet street, I’m still glad that big opening is now closed up.

[TonyC]

At the risk of sounding stupid, does anyone know the methods of payment Detroit Deviant accepts?

---Tony

[John Mc]

At the risk of sounding stupid, does anyone know the methods of payment Detroit Deviant accepts?

---Tony

I bought it from their website with a CC as I recall

[defrang]

PayPal

[TonyC]

Aces! I was hoping PayPal was an option. So nothing is in the way of my getting one...or two, just in case, sometime in the future, a newbie gets tired of his 'vert and makes an offer I can't refuse.

---Tony