Frozen brake pedal - Troubleshooting?

[MattL]

This weekend I finally got my new clutch master, slave and rebuilt pedal box installed. When I got the brake linkage hooked up, though, I discovered that it won't budge an inch. It moved freely in/out of the pedal box before I installed it, so I know the problem isn't there.

Any suggestions on how to find where the freeze/bind is? (BTW, I bought this car in non-driving condition, with the pedal box rotted/frozen, so I don't have any experience with it working for comparison.)

Thanks in advance!

[Dachdu2002]

If you take out your washer fluid bottle you'll see a large bolt going through the Brake booster Bracketry on the passenger side, going in one side out the other with a nut on the other end try loosening that bolt and that should free up your brake pedal. I had this same issue on my 02 and a local 02er pointed that out and it fixed my stuck brake pedal issue.

Good Luck and hopefully i described everything alright.

[MattL]

Thank you for your reply. Are you referring to the bolt that the pedal box fins fit into (the one that runs across the brake booster housing just behind the rectangular opening at the top)? If so, I did check that and it's nice and loose.

[07GTIMYFAST]

did you replace the brake MC also? If it was frozen before all the new hardware it probably is still frozen.