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A fairly common happenstance. If you do a search you'll find lots of posts on this problem. The only cure is to remove the pedal, clean and regrease with good water resistant grease (I use boat trailer bearing grease) and reassemble. It's not all that hard to get the thing off if it hasn't frozen up completely. Disconnect the master cylinder push rod, remove the big cotter pin and washeron the inside end of the pivot. Then you can rotate lever up enough to easily disconnect the coil spring and push the pedal inward enough to get it off the pivot. Clean out the old crud and corrosion, relube and reinstall. You should be good for another ten or fifteen years before it needs to be done again.
A fairly common happenstance. If you do a search you'll find lots of posts on this problem. The only cure is to remove the pedal, clean and regrease with good water resistant grease (I use boat trailer bearing grease) and reassemble. It's not all that hard to get the thing off if it hasn't frozen up completely. Disconnect the master cylinder push rod, remove the big cotter pin and washeron the inside end of the pivot. Then you can rotate lever up enough to easily disconnect the coil spring and push the pedal inward enough to get it off the pivot. Clean out the old crud and corrosion, relube and reinstall. You should be good for another ten or fifteen years before it needs to be done again.
