You better make sure your pedals are still on the bench !!



Gary,

If you look closely at the pic, the lower right corner is cracked right through.
That is gonna get welded.
After that....
It seems this area is designed to fail, on purpose maybe- either for safety or engineered obsolesence ( sp ? ).
I am tossing around welding this area up ( maybe aluminum plate on each side- inside/outside ) or steel on either side with through bolts.
That area is weak weak weak for the force that is going through it.
Also buffering the firewall is probably a must.
Thoughts on this ?


This is not experience by the way, this is shade tree engineering


I may go ZF as well, by the way....I was offered a small block 542 at a good price.
I am buzzing thinking about the 5.36 low ( somewhere around there ) AND the 0.76 high.
So this might be a done deal.


nick

 

I'm going with a mechanical linkage as it seems the easiest and it should be reliable. Won't have to reinforce anything, won't have to adapt the later pedals into the earlier truck or pedal assembly. Just seems the easiest and cleanest way out.

 

By the way, that pic landed upside doen as compared to my phone.
The crack would be yop left

Gary,

I haven't read through all of your stuff, but I know you are using a ZF.
How are you doing a ZF with mechanical ( I'm sure you covered this in your thread ) ?
Is your truck a big block ?

Anyway, my thoughts are hydraulic as it is the most plyable ( for me ) for a modified application, and typical of the updated transmissions ( ZF and M5xx ).
I've had both mechanical and slave trucks....ugh, I probably prefer...
...NIETHER !!!!
hahahahahahahahah

At some point either one is a PIA

nick

 

Well, I haven't gotten as far as the linkage by any stretch. But, there are guys on FTE that have done mechanical linkages, so just search for their posts. I forget which ones, but have links to them somewhere.

 

I've seen it done (mechanical clutch with ZF5) in the 73-79 forum somewhere....

 

Yes, that's where it was. Thanks, Chris.

 

Wow,

super cool.

inginuity ( ENGINE-uity ) and a shop !
short of cold fusion, if it can be thought up, it can be done.

searching the posts !

nn