I bought a new nostalgic brake pedal and shifter and was wondering about the best way to remove the stock pedal and shifter. It looks like the best way would be to cut through the rubber and gain access to the attachment hardware?

 

Perhaps this is not the best way butI took a knife to the back side of my stock brake pad to remove it. The shifter pegs I clamped on a pair of vise grips, as they are installed from HS with red thread locker.

Cheers,
Luxe

 

If you dont plan on ever using the stock break pedel again just cut it off, youll save yourself alot of headach. The shifter pegs, just get yourself a set of vise grips like Luxe did or get a pair of channel lock pliers and unscrew them.

Chris

 

Unless I'm confusing this with something else, but my brake pedal was bolted on from underneath. It was a straight replacement from stock the the nostalgic pedal. +1 for the vise grips on the shifter pegs.

 

yep! my Fat Boy's stock brake pedal was bolted from the bottom. the stock shifter had an allen-head bolt running through the middle of therubber pedal.... well, the new ones do too. however, I changed the shifter pedal on an '07SoftTail Standard - and just cut the rubber off enough to get a pair of vice-grips on the bolt.

 

I'd just rubber band an M-80 to the brake pad and let it do it's work................

 

How 'bout we tape an M-80 to the steering wheel of the Monte instead??

 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, cause I'm not trying to remove my steering wheel........DA

 

I've just replaced my shifter pedal for a Willie G. Skull, pretty easy to do. I've removed the old one, which was hold there by a srew, with the new one.

But the old brake pad (rubber)... oh man !! ... I wasn't able to remove it by pulling it off with fingers between the rubber and the brake pedal (metal).
I also tried putting a plastic tool in between, felt something, but didn't help... maybe I don't have enough strenght in my fingers

So I cutted it ! Once appart, I founded out why it was so hard, some kind of bumb in the rubber and the brake pedal itself has a "special" shape. See pictures bellow.

 

Hi Guys,
you don't need to cut it, just lever the pad a bit with a flat blade screw driver and squirt some silicone lubricant spray (wont damage rubber) under both sides of the cover. Then you can just yank the cover off with a little persuasion. There are a couple of moulded rubber lugs in the cover to stop it from slipping off the metal pedal, this is what causes the resistance.