Tried to put the pedals in last night and it was not possible, so today I cut the floor section out of the footwell.
I can see now I'll be re-doing the MC holes so the pedals are even. You can see I cut out the "tunnel" plate to make room for the single gas pedal. What was there was perfect to just bolt in a Bug pedal set but why do anything simple when it's just a few 10s of hours to cut it all up and build it by hand from scratch?
Put the car on the lift and put the lift WAY up, and at the last notch I heard a "pop" and about a half pint of hydraulic fluid puked out of the cylinder. So that was cool.
I called Direct Lift thinking I'm needing a whole new cylinder and the dude there was like: How high was it?
All the way.
How often do you put it up there?
First time in many months. Maybe ever for that top notch.
Ah. So maybe some fluid got past the rear seal and has been in there a long time. Happens a lot. When the lift is up that high there's nowhere for it to go, so there's a bleed-off valve for this.
He tells me to get the car off it and cycle it up and down a few times all the way. Call him if significant fluid comes out after the second full lift. On the first one I got another half pint. After that, nothing much.
So I pushed the car back on the lift and continued hacking at it.
Such is today's shop drama.