SPF help needed:

[MOTORHEAD]

Greetings fellow Cobraholics: My name is Ted, and I have been Cobra free for several months now. How ever my old boss called and said he had a 9 yr old bottle of SPF with only 497 mi. on the label ! But he needed help to get the thing uncorked ! How could I resist ? Yeah, I'm an addict, like most of you. I've been "Completing" BDR's for about 3 years now, but this is the first SPF I've worked on, and there is a few things I'm having a problem with:
#1. Wouldn't start. Found "duraspark" module potting melted all over pass footwell. New unit fixed problem, but need to get unit out of eng comp, but need to get harness through fire wall to mount unit inside. Can't get to harness from inside due to cowl bar structure. Anyone done this before ? It's on the rt side outbd of the glove box.
#2. Clutch pedal is very heavy, and needs to go to the floor to get complete release. It's hyd, & has a slave cly with the # FD 48909 stamped in it. There is no free play at the T.O. brg/ disc fingers, or in the pedal linkage, and there is no lost motion. Slave starts to push as soon as pedal moves.
There's a couple of other things, but these are the biggies.
Any ideas?
TIA
Ted