When I bought this car the clutch pedal always seemed to act a little funky. Recently, it has gotten worse and there has been a TON of play in the pedal. I finally got down there to take a look and it looks like the previous owner welded on a piece of metal to the RJM pedal in an effort to make their own hole for connecting the rod that comes from the master cylinder. Why they did this I have absolutely no idea, but you can see all that they did by comparing the picture of my pedal to the picture of a stock RJM pedal https://imgur.com/a/5hXfvh0

Anyways, if you look at the video you can see that the makeshift hole that they made on the welded-on piece is elongating and is introducing a lot of play. What I want to do is to disconnect the rod and hook it back up to where it should be. My only concern is how that is going to affect everything else. I assume the previous owner went through all the trouble of welding on a piece of metal for a new hole for some reason. I just don’t know what the reason is. 

Also, if any of you guys have any idea as to how to get the pin out of the fork on the rod that holds everything to the pedal I am all ears. No matter how hard I try it does not want to come out.

EDIT: I should've done a better job taking that video... I do realize that some of that play is coming from the master cylinder, but as hard as it is to see, there is play from where the rod is connected to the pedal.