gas and brake pedal position

[wrkey]

The pedals on my car are at different positions. The gas pedal is about 3 inches closer to the seat than the brake pedal. The brake seems to take a rather long stroke to fully engage (yes the lines have been bled).

So the question is... is my pedal set up like everyone else's? Are their adjustments for the pedals?

Thanks in advance!

[Rich]

Yes, there are adjustments. Take a look at the brake and accel linkage ends up under the dash. You'll find some stop bolts you can run in and out. The brake looks less adjustable than the accel pedal does.

On ours the accel pedal rests about half an inch further from the seat than the brake pedal. No idea what "normal" is, but this setup works for us.

Accel and brake pedal rest positions - not their pivot points - are adjustable.

If you adjust the accelerator rest position make sure you still have full idle and wide-open-throttle working for you at the other end of the cable. The way yours is set up somebody could have been compensating for a short/broken/frayed cable end at the throttle quadrant. Just running the bolt adjustment for the pedal without changing the cable length correspondingly at the quadrant will give you a very, very high idle condition. You want there to be just a little cable slack at idle with the pedal at its stop or the throttle won't close fully.

No comment on how long your brake pedal travel is. If you can lock them up before the pedal bottoms out that's a start. The brake pedal travel is a function of being air-free and having brake hoses that aren't swelling - and no leaks. There is a small adjustment to rest position, but the travel is set by the master cylinder and the rest of the hydraulics.