Pedal date Bingo

[MikeW]

Originally posted by civ104

I don't know if this is the norm, but on my '70 240Z, the brake pedal arm seems to be of a fairly heavy cast material and the clutch pedal arm is of a lighter pressed form of metal.

Mine's the same; I think that's the norm.

[hmsports]

1426 on my brake pedal. Nothing on the clutch.

[daddz]

Originally posted by HS30-H

Hi bill,

That's not 907 AD - that's day and month.:cheeky:

No year was stamped ( I shouldn't think they were expecting to have 'stock' that was over a year old.......).

Alan T.

Alan,

Question: If that's only day and month can we assume that for cars produced late in the year (i.e. 12/71 etc..) that were no leftovers? I am curious to know if we can solve for the variable of what year these pedals were stamped. Do you have any other knowledge that you would like to share that provides additonal date coding for a given S30?

BTW,

I think this is fascinating given that we don't have much in the way of factory documentation. As a comparison I have just bought a 1972 Toyota Celica (RA21) and I am surprised by the amount of production data that is available for these cars.

I will have more information in a day or so as I have six or seven pedal sets to check. Just out of curiosity I will make a note to check the two S130's that I own. While I am at it I guess I should check the Z31 and Z33 to see if any of this has been continued.

[Zedrally]

Just thinking that these pedals may have been a generic type and used on other Datsun Models such as the 510 etc?

Would be logical knowing how Nissan made use of interchangability.

Any 510 owners out there that could check?

[Z Kid]

I'll go look, be right back

[HS30-H]

May I take this opportunity to say a big THANK YOU to the kind people who PM'd me about this thread and the way I was feeling about it?

I was very dismayed to think that anyone would believe that this was some kind of trick or joke, and for a good while I was quite upset. However, The PM's were very encouraging and I'm very pleased and honoured that people are taking the time to look into this.

Some points I should make:

*I had no idea that any cars would have NO number on at least one of their pedals. I have never seen a pedal without SOME form of stamping or other identification mark on it. You learn something new about these cars every day.............

*I was calling these numbers "dates" for a reason; It has been suggested to me that the four-digit stamps on my pedals indicated the month and the day of manufacture, and that the year was not marked as it was not necessary on a component that would not be hanging around for more than a year. HOWEVER - I did not think that this was completely true, as I have seen some pedals ( admittedly RHD ) that had letters as well as numbers on them. I have also seen numbers higher than 31 in pairs - which would surely nix the theory that it meant either a day or month.

*I wanted to try to get to the bottom of it by seeing what other cars had. The "0907" and "0911" numbers I posted photos of are from my project car - which is a Japanese home-market "Fairlady Z-L" ( S30 ) made in 1970. My other car - also Japanese home-market - has some letters as well as numbers on the pedals ( that car has a late 1971 build date ).

*I know that RHD and LHD pedal shapes are quite different, but I was expecting ( hoping! ) that a clearer picture might emerge that showed a pattern or method to the numberings. I'm none the wiser!

There is of course a greater thickness to the pedal stem on the BRAKE pedals in comparison to the CLUTCH pedals. That's natural when you consider the duty of each pedal. However, I believe that they are both stamped or punched out of steel stock rather than one of them being cast - as somebody suggested.

Here's a close-up of my Brake pedal stem in profile. You can see that it has probably been punched out with a die ( ? ):

[ozlime240z]

Originally posted by HS30-H

Just for the record part 2:

I'm seriously offended at some of the comments that have been made on this thread.

A couple of people that have made them are people that I thought better of, too.

I'm seriously pissed off to be accused of creating a "scam". I'm not very much enlightened about pedal stampings but I AM a bit more enlightened about some of the members of this site now.

Alan T.

You're kidding me right. Grow a skin mate. I'm 100% sure that nobody here meant you to take offense. Scam or not I think it's bloody hilarious that most of us have stood on our head at the chance of winning a mystery prize.

I think everyone at this sight is now a little more enlightened about you.

[HS30-H]

And here's the pair of pedals photographed together.

They are part-stripped of their black Factory paint at the moment. The Brake pedal had been attacked by brake fluid some time in the past, so I'm taking them both back to bare metal and will refinish them.

I think you can see that they are indeed stamped out of flat sheet steel, as there seems to be no finishing to the surface at all:

[HS30-H]

Originally posted by ozlime240z

I think everyone at this sight is now a little more enlightened about you.

Oh yeah? How?

[ozlime240z]

Originally posted by HS30-H

Oh yeah? How?

Originally posted by ozlime240z

You're kidding me right. Grow a skin mate.

Basicaly that you're very thin skinned, thought I'd said that already.

[ozlime240z]

HSH30

We could play these stupid games all day, however I'm not going to.

I will however say that I'm offended by your sweeping generalizations about people on this site, we all need to keep an open mind and not think at first sign of opposition that everyone is out to get you.

You're getting a whole pile of interesting information about pedals, allot more info than you had before and that was your objective.

[HS30-H]

Thats a ****ing big spoon you've got there boy.