[hobbygto65]

Finnally finished fabricating my clutch linkage. All stock linkage except for BOP adapter, length of 7/16 high strength fine threaded rod and a 7/16 Hime joint.
Oh I almost forgot, a short Pontiac head bolt that has the stud on top.

[ahnuld]

nice

[Doug]

Nice job you did.

I did a similar setup on my 428 with longbranch manifold.

I wanted to get my fork pushrod more parallel so I made up a piece out of 2 1/2" box tubing to offset the Heim joint from the triangular pivot piece. The front (of car) end of the pivot piece fits inside the driver side of the tubing piece and is bolted to the pivot piece through the original linkage's trunnion mount hole. I added a bent angled brace to the inside of the passenger side of the tubing piece that "cleats" rigidly to the front of the triangle pivot piece.

I wanted a more positive setup to keep the clutch pedal "pull rod" end in the triangle pivot piece so I made up a clamping piece to hold the pull rod in the triangle pivot piece. It pivots with the pull rod.

I made up bracket pieces mounted to the bell housing for mounting the bolt for the curved stabilizer link from the "corrugated" piece mounted to the frame rail. I also made up a piece out of 1" box tubing to mount on the frame rail to keep the corrugated link on its mounting bolt.

Hopefully, the few pictures below will explain all this!

P.S. How in the hell did you enlarge the original linkage trunnion hole in the triangle piece? It is made of the hardest damned metal in the world!

[tom s]

Now I remember why I went hyd bearing in my 63 20 plus years ago!Tom