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Originally Posted by Captainfab
Welcome to the forum and thanks for your service 
Making the original clutch linkage work with a big block in these trucks is next to impossible. Plus with those headers it definitely is not going to happen. I do make a booster bracket with the hydraulic clutch conversion. You will have to source the clutch slave conversion from someone like Novak Adapters.
http://www.67-72chevytrucks.com/vboa...d.php?t=651200
https://www.novak-adapt.com/catalog/...hcr3/kit-hcrc/
To convert a '63-'66 C20 to disc brakes isn't much different than with a C10 except that you must change the entire front suspension including the crossmember. This is much easier with the engine out.
Before you get too carried away with new parts on that differential, I would check to see what gears it has. Most of the Eaton HO52/72's had 4.57 gears. Those are not highway friendly and not what you really need behind a big block.
I don't know if that radiator will cool that big block. It will depend on what you do for a fan and a shroud. I would suggest one of the many aftermarket radiators made specifically to fit the '63-'66 trucks. I like this one.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1963-1964-1...19.m1438.l2649
But with that radiator you will need the correct upper and lower saddles versus what the 6cyl used unless it had the HD cooling radiator. |
Thank you for your reply, I really appreciate the help and advice. I’m sending you a PM for a little more in-depth discussion on the hydraulic clutch kit.
As for the radiator you linked, I do like that one as well and I definitely need to keep this bad boy cool. As for a fan and shroud, I was thinking of just going with an aluminum shroud and an electric fan such as this :
https://www.jegs.com/i/Champion-Cool...FS284/10002/-1
https://www.jegs.com/i/Champion-Cool...CFK16/10002/-1
As for the upper and lower saddles, any insight as to where I can get them and how to know I’m getting the correct ones for the radiator that you linked?