carb linkage needed for 250 6cyl
 

I have '67 inline 6 that is in a '35 Chevy pickup. I'm working out some bugs . One that bothers me most is carb linkage .I have decided to go to a pull cable instead of a push rod.
I need to know what years and model gm vehicle to look for. Here are a couple sample pics. The first picture has detent cable capabilities. I would prefer the style without as in the second picture........ Thanks in advance.

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What is on my motor is a push rod through the board floor and snakes around the motor to a pivot bracket flipped around to push the carb open .

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If a pull cable type will work, a pedal and cable from a square body truck may work...

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I have the pedal assm. from a '72 I can make work for the firewall side of things . What I need is the engine side of the equation. Thanks Greg.

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While I have since upgraded carbs etc., I used a lokar cable kit ($$$) and made a bracket from a T shaped 1/8" thick steel Simpson framing bracket I had laying around. Cut off one of the short legs, drilled a hole for the cable mount and screwed it into the firewall.

My only complaint is that the arm does not seem to pull the throttle open enough to full throttle. I am thinking I need a longer arm from like a Camaro or something.

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Nate -- I used a Throttle Return Spring assembly from Jegs to pull back on the throttle lever. I had to hack an inch or so off the inboard side to avoid contact with the valve cover.
Jegs p/n:15150 [$66.39 currently]

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Another pic:

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nice but it probably won't work for my application, but may work for 3757 since his carb linkage is parallel while mine is 90 to the engine.

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I was hoping to keep it looking GM. I can come up with something that will work . I was just hoping someone might know where I should start looking.

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I went with one of these pedal asm. I just need something to attach it to the carb linkage .

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It didn't come with the bracket it showed in the ad..., but I can live with that.

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... another view of what I would like to have.

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I tried out an idea for a bracket, a muffler clamp and a piece of angle iron. I used a bicycle cable as a prototype. I would still like to find gm bracket and pivot .

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I improved the look , but i'm still on the search for the GM linkage .

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Located and installed.:metal:

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You'll love the throttle response. No lag. No binding. No jams. No small parts faling off at the wrong time. Just a smooth power transition.

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I have not gotten to drive it yet , but it does feel a lot better. And it looks so much cleaner.

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Take your time. Rome wasn't built in a day.
I put the throttle/cable conversion on my '68 C/10 in 2002, before I rebuilt the engine. After about 250,000 miles my 292 was acting poorly. We rebuilt the Holley 8007 390 CFM carb adding a 50CC accelerator pump, and the throttle cable. It ran, but had a bad lope.
Finally I took it into a shop that had a Sun engine analyser. They told me Cylinders 3 and 4 were dead. My L6 was a four-banger. I decided rather than just a doing a valve job, I'd rebuild another 292 core I had stashed. The old build was from 1977.
We finally got that beast on the road in Jan 2005. The Holley ran fine during the 500 mile break-in, but a backfire killed the power valve, and -- suspecting a warped surface on the carb plane -- just replaced the the 390 with an Edelbrock 1404 500 CFM 4 barrel.
After teething problems with the AFB-clone were gone thru, it has run well ever since.
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