Rudder Pedal and toe brakes.

[Skybolt]

Scott I don't know / or I am not familier with your rudder pedals.
I am attaching a picture of my footwear. Notice the E weldment that the ball of the foot and the toe area can make contact. Yours is more of a C shape.

You must have an early Model 4, the later units went out with a beefed up weldment notice the gusset at the right angle. This was to prevent the tube from splitting.

Anyway, I have to stretch a little to get pressure on the brakes.
Can you adjust the master cylinder top bracket shortening the reach?

[SkyPirate]

if you look at the welded on tab for the brake cylinder location of the two different photo's,..they are in different places,..this might be an issue if you swapped them out,..but...if you removed the stock older model 4 actualtor pedal and added a similar lower piece ..amking it the same "E" config ..this might cure the problem

[Slyfox]

skypirate is right, if you go to the E type brake pedal, I think things would be better. If you have your foot on the bottom of the E it forces the brakes off.

[SkyPirate]

Brake-rudder pedal.jpg

a sketch of a possible fix

[sdemeyer]

Thanks a million. I will change to the "E" configuration.

Scott

[JimS]

Scott,
Had the same thing with my Model IV.
I cut a couple threads off of the stem coming out of the top of the break cylinder and also a bit off the U that screws on it. You don't need to take a whole lot off to move the break pedal out of the way. I may have even run a couple more threads on the stem I can't recall but there should probably be 4-5 threads engaged when it's done.
JimS

[dholly]

another idea