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hello all. I am trying to identify the name and purpose of a bar attached to the front bulkhead of my MGF (1998). It's the bar sat below the washer bottle in the picture. Fully prepared for a "duh" moment, but I can't see reference to it in the workshop manual.

I believe the photo is showing the brake pedal cross shaft to the brake servo .
John .

Brilliant, that makes sense. Cheers John. It has a fair bit of play in it side to side and had wondered if it was the cause of one of (the many) clonks in the front compartment. Most of which are likely suspension related but I'm crossing those off the list one by one

Yeah, for some reason MG decided to put the brake servo on the opposite side to the driver and this rod links between the two.
Left hand drive models have the reverse with the servo on the left as you look at it.

P.S. hi and welcome to the forum Try anything

Good to know...maybe the engineers disappeared down a cul de sac with that one. Don't have enough experience to know if it's a common solution.

Tryeverythingonce wrote:

Good to know...maybe the engineers disappeared down a cul de sac with that one. Don't have enough experience to know if it's a common solution.

It does seem odd. I'd assumed that it was the usual bodge for RHD cars only with LHD pedals feeding direct to the servo.....

Hi,
Interestingly, the MGF Cup race cars had the brake servo mounted directly above the brake pedals and deleted the need for the cross bar. So it could be done and if used in racing I expect an improvement.
No idea why both LH and RH models should both have it. It looks so much likes a LH/RH conversion. Makes no sense to a simpleton like me since it could be mounted above. A company called Tech-Speed picked MGF off production line and converted them into Cup Race Cars, including remounting the servo into the "correct" place.

Cheers.

My guess is it was more to do with packaging, it might have given them more room for equipment not required on the race cars.