Quote:
Originally Posted by bill ryder
Hi Tom. I have wondered this before. Does your rear carb have the mech. linkage lever swedged on or screwed on? Meaning did they replace the carb or just add the lever. I don't remember if the kit came with the lever and screw, base Assy or new shaft Assy. Thanks. "Bill"!
|
No complete rear base in the kit of parts. My levers are swedged on the shaft, a RP serial number on each lever, two "position holes" on the rear lever, and factory peaning of the screws holding the throttle blades to the shaft and base assembly. I owned two "Kits" that also had the swedged lever on the shaft but obviously would not have the screws peaned on the shafts in the factory manner.
The kit is/was very similar to Dick B's parts except that you got a Rochester Products swedged rear lever and replacement screws.
60sstuff brings up a good point, the pedal effort was high on my vehicle (being the first one of the kit) because the carb springs were heavy Vacuum System springs. Maybe this was to tell the Execs wife that she was going to get a surge in power if she when farther into the throttle but I later changed those as by the time I got the car the kits pieces were out in the system and 65 GTOs were being made with mechanical linkage and soft springs.
The 65 System is a far better system vs the Tube and Plunger "SD System" /64 Kit Parts which can have the parts installed incorrectly and the rear carbs hang open when the plunger falls out and drops/hangs up on the heat cross-over. Even into 1966 the pics in the advertising said the plunger went on the rear carb BAD IDEA if you had those parts.
The actual 65 and 66 parts/cars received the "TRAPPED SLOTTED ROD" systems.
Hope this helps 60sstuff.
Dick B, John V, and I have discussed this 64 linkage many times.
Tom V.