the damn plastic trim above the driver-side feet area. Driving to work yesterday in the 88 gl wagon, my clutch got stuck fully depressed going up a hill in heavy traffic. I thought that either my clutch cable had broke or that my clutch fork had bent. Was able to use my toes to pull the clutch up and resume driving - slowly and with a minimum amount of shifting. On the way home last night, I again carefully drove hoping to make it back without further problems, but it got stuck again and I realized it was the plastic trim - the piece has fingers for the clutch and brake pedals and had shifted just enough to catch the clutch pedal arm and block it from the return position. I tore it off and continued the drive home without further problems. Will be taking that piece off on my other gl.

Holy Cow!

 

That's the reason why I Removed that piece on my BumbleBeast in year 1997...

 

Glad to read that there wasn't an accident after all.

 

Kind Regards.

I hate that darn thing. Never put it back on my dad's after I replaced the clutch cable, and the one in mine was for an automatic, so... it didn't fit.

 

Glad it didn't actually cause an accident.

I still have the piece in my RX, never had any issues with.

short people have small feet so they dont rip it loose with their toes

take it off, & leave it off - no more worries.