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Old 07-19-2014, 10:23 PM   #1
Tree-50
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Dallas, Texas
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Mechanical pedal to cable

This is my first post, been lurking for a week or so until I decided to make an account. I will use this as my intro thread as well! From Dallas area, picked up a nice running 68 c10 with a 350 in it and 3 on the tree. Truck runs solid, front end needs a little help and so does the stopping power but hey, its going to be my driveable project. I'm new to trucks and displacement, but not to mods, current dd is a vw passat on air, and I just got out of my built gti. The gti had about 400whp to the fronts, forged bottom end with garret gt3076r turbo, safe to say I pulled on quite a few "american muscle" heads! Plans for truck is full restoration and laying control arms for now, drop spindles, disc swap, bag kit and notch. Once that is done, then I will move onto detailing things and dress up kits.

Got the truck for cheap, no body rust so far, just a little bit on the door seals, haven't torn the rubber up but I did lift it a bit and didn't see any cab rot that I could see. So far I've adjusted the shift linkage as it was getting stuck and now it's golden, swapped out the old leaky carb with another qjet and replaced the rear shoes, springs and cylinders. Sounds like it has a mild cam already as well as but hard to really tell with the ram horns leaking a bit.

Now onto my question, it's old, so everything is mechanical, what is the easiest way to switch from rod to cable on the throttle? Is there an aftermarket pedal setup or is pulling one from a 71+ or w/e the year is the only real "easy" way to do it without fabrication...I would like to drive it lol, but there is no way right now without rigging a coat hanger since the throttle plate is for a cable and I really want this truck to be nice, not "making things work" kind of build.


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