Problem detaching master cylinder from clutch pedal

[plenty]

Hello gents

Yesterday my clutch pedal sank to the floor. Fortunately I was just yards from home when it happened - managed to get the car into the garage and decided to get a head start on replacing the master and slave cylinders by removing the old items first.

Car jacked up, on stands, starter motor off, slave cylinder off, no problem. Master cylinder unbolted from bulkhead. So far going well until I got into the footwell to try to detach the master cylinder from the clutch pedal. According to the Clark's Garage instructions - albeit these are for LHD cars and mine is RHD:

On late 944s and 968s, once the spring clip is removed, push the clevis bolt out through the right side (to your left as you do your gymnastic routine on your back under the steering wheel). The master cylinder push rod / clevis should now be free of the clutch pedal.

Circlip and two washers duly removed, but the bolt is firmly budged in. There's not enough room to get a mallet in there but I've tried banging the end of the bolt with various implements without luck. There's also not enough free play in the clevis or cylinder to simply lever it off the end of the bolt.

Am I missing something?

 

[bert gear]

ITs not held on with a pin but a stud fixed to the leaver, you just have to move the master cyl rod off the stud by pulling it to the left

 

[bmnelsc]

The December 2011 Excellence magazine just reviewed master and slave clutch cyl replacement. According to them, that is not a bolt on the clutch pedal but a stud. If the pedal won't slide sideways then you probably must remove the nuts holding the cylinder to the firewall and then pivot the cylinder to free it from the stud (after you've slide it back far enough to clear the firewall mounting studs). I'm guessing you will be pulling the bellows quite a bit by this time.

They also said they did not follow the instruction to "prime" the new master cyl with brake fluid before installing because all this manipulation to get the clevis back on the pedal and getting the clip re-installed would force all the new fluid out anyway. They figured bleeding the whole system once both cylinders were changed was preferable to squirting brake fluid all over the paint (brake fluid is corrosive to paint - flush with water immediately if you spill any).

Hope this helps...

 

[plenty]

Thank you very much for your replies - I managed to get the clevis freed from the pedal. It is indeed pressed onto the end of a fixed stud and is held fairly tightly on with a plastic sleeve acting as a bush between the stud and the clevis hole.

I found the trick was actually to bolt the master cylinder back onto the bulkhead - with it being further into the footwell and rigidly held in place I was able to prise off the clevis using a long screwdriver.

Thanks again for your help, and Bert you have mail!