Over-Center Spring: Removing

-- Disconnect the battery ground cable, refer to REMOVAL AND INSTALLATION .

-- Move the driver seat all the way back and raise the steering wheel to it highest position.

-- Remove the drivers side trim and the cover under the trim, refer to "Storage Compartments, Covers and Trim" in REMOVAL AND INSTALLATION .

-- Remove the bolt -2- and the left footwell vent -1-, refer to DESCRIPTION AND OPERATION .

Fig 1: Identifying Left Footwell Air Vent Remove/Install Components

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Remove the impact bolster support bolt -1- and impact bolster support -2-.

Fig 2: Identifying Clutch Pedal Crash Bolster With Bolt

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-- Remove the nut -arrow- and the ground wire from the steering column.

Fig 3: Identifying Ground Wire And Nut

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-- Press the tabs -arrow- on both sides of the wire guide -1- toward the inside and remove the guide -1- from the steering column.

Fig 4: Identifying Cable Guide

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-- Remove the sound absorber -arrow- from the clutch pedal bracket, if equipped.

Fig 5: Bracket With Sound Absorber

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-- Remove the retainers -A- for the sound absorber.

Fig 6: Identifying Damper Retainers

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-- Remove the sound absorber.

-- Push the sound absorber near the upper nut -1- above the clutch pedal -A- in the -direction of the arrow-.

Fig 7: Clutch Pedal Upper Nut

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-- Remove the nut -2- and the bolt -5- and then remove the clutch pedal -1- from the bracket -3-.

Fig 8: Identifying Clutch Pedal, Mounting Bracket, Center Spring, Nut And Bolt

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-- Swivel the clutch pedal slightly downward and remove the over-center spring -4- from the bracket.