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Spent the day wrestling with the carb and throttle linkage. Assisted by my Grandson, today he used the die cuttoff wheel for the first time and learned how to use a threading die. Carb drove me crazy, could not get the secondaries to open. Thought it might be misalignment of throttle plates and manifold, it is a dual plane and carb need to be spaced just right. Turned out to be the gasket was sticking out rubbing on some of the choke/secondary linkage. A little trim and we good to go. Took a while to get the geometry of the throttle linkage right, Q-jet is in much different location than the old Rochester 2GC I was running on the 283. The part thru the firewall is a stock Chevy part, I can't remember if I got it out of a wrecking yard off a 50's car or if it came on the 62 donor truck I had in 85. Here are pics of it on the bench and installed.