Damn! Just found some rust behind the pedal assembly, Pleeeease- help me asses, it is stressing me out! Options

[levonfarra]

How bad does this look? I poked with screw driver, but nothing poked through.

Is this a commen rust area and is it diffecult to repair (and how do I repair it)?

Is this area originally not painted?

Please advise.

Thank you,

Levon

[highways]

Redoing your pedal assembly is easy and fun. It's a really good idea to take it out anyway so that you can paint that floorpan underneath the assembly... that's the lowest point where the water pools. You can see in yours pics on the front firewall how the rust is crawling up from the floor. Mine was like yours... and I'm glad I caught it when I did.

You can follow Eric Shea's pedal assembly rebuild in the Classic Thread section link You just order the brass bushing kit for the assembly (like $20)... send the dissambled pedal assembly off to the platers... (another $20) then a week later when you get it back it only takes an hour or two to re-assemble.

Your old assembly which looked like this:



with old cracking plastic bushings like these (not good when your dealing with your brake system!):


can become brand spanking new like this with solid brass bushings:


These are pictures from Eric's rebuild thread. Mine turned out well too. I think Eric also offer's a rebuild service at very good rates if you don't want to do it yourself.