Raider L
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- Shreveport, LA
- First Name
- William
- Truck Year
- 1974
- Truck Model
- C10
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- 355
Well, I finally decided to put one of the two new kick down brackets in my truck today. The two brackets can be seen in "Wrong kick down rebuild" and the others about what I had bought, one bracket from Holley and the other one, a chrome one did come from Holley but it looks like something you'd get from Mr. Gasket Or TD Performance, or one of those kinds of companies. Holley owns all of them now because small companies can't make it in this economy so they get bought out. No matter, I used what I thought would work.
Another view of the install. I don't have my kick down hooked up yet because I discovered that the bolt/stud-slider thing the kick down cable attaches to, the bolt end was the wrong size diameter to go through the hole on the carb linkage. So I spent the next 2 1/2 hours looking through every single fastener I have trying to find another stud thing to fit the kick down cable on, and didn't have another one that was that small to fit the hole in the carb linkage.
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Removed the factory brackets left over from the 2 bbl. carb I used to have on the motor. I wasn't concerned about using the kick down so I left it like it was. The throttle worked okay so I left that to. But since my trans has just been overhauled I figured this is a good time to correct the brackets so they fit the 4 bbl. carb setup.
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This is the real Holley bracket, see pics in "Wrong kick down rebuild". It would not place the kick down cable where it actually needed to be. To bad because I really liked the looks of this one. But I couldn't reattach the throttle cable with this bracket on so I had to put the chrome one on that has provisions for both the throttle cable and the kick down cable.
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As you can see it attaches to the back corner bolt on the carb base plate. The bracket is made in such a way where it has flanges turned down and is squared up on the carb base where it won't go anywhere so the one nut is all it needs. I don't really like that because both cables pulling against this one nut doesn't seem to be very secure, but it's design seems okay. We'll see how it works in the long run.Another view of the install. I don't have my kick down hooked up yet because I discovered that the bolt/stud-slider thing the kick down cable attaches to, the bolt end was the wrong size diameter to go through the hole on the carb linkage. So I spent the next 2 1/2 hours looking through every single fastener I have trying to find another stud thing to fit the kick down cable on, and didn't have another one that was that small to fit the hole in the carb linkage.
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So I finally came up with an aircraft bolt to go in the linkage until I get the correct one from Holley. Dang that made me so frustrated. I had two extra throttle linkage studs, but not anything legit I could use except a dang bolt! Sorry guys, and gals. I did put forth max effort to find the right thing so I can be a good example to the young guys and gals looking how to work on our Squares the right way, and not half a** engineering. You know what I mean?
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