Clutch Cable
The clutch pedal had been installed and hanging around unattached for a while now. With the props in it seemed like a good time to try out the clutch and see if the car would move.
I had a quick look at a few Ford clutch cables at my local Wilco and plumped for an Escort mkIII one as it had the right end to go into the pedal box and a useful gland to fit into the actuator arm on the engine.
The bike clutch cable pulls towards the front of the engine (in the bike). In the car it was easiest to route the cable directly from the pedals, which would mean pulling the actuator arm from the side. Fortunately the actuator arm was held on a splined rod by a circlip. Pulling it off and turning it round 90 degrees was a ten minute job. I then needed a mount for the engine end of the cable. At this point I wished that I had had a small bit of flat welded onto the front offside engine mount, but in the end I drilled a small (4mm) hole through the engine mount itself, which actually lined up better with the clutch actuator arm. The cable was cut to just the right length so that it routed back up to the pedal box without having turns that were too tight and trying not to cause the cable inner to wear the engine mount by pulling through the hole at an angle. The pedal end of the cable was simply attached by passing it though a bolt with a hole drilled through it.
I did a few measurements to ensure that the mounting point on the pedal would provide the right amount of movement of the cable (about 15mm) experienced on the bike and give a decent pedal travel for some feel.
With the clutch pedal fixed it was time to move the car for the first time under its own power. Without brakes or steering this was limited to a short trip into the garage, but I still managed to hit the brake pedal rather than pull the handbrake and had a short heart-stopping moment with the lawn-mower. No harm done though!