What are you guys doing about brake pedal hitting clutch fork when using SBC in early Fords? I did a search prior to creating this post. Thanks to all for bearing with me.
I was having this same issue on my custom chassis, as I recall, I had to cut a notch out of the clutch arm and do a sort of box-in to put strength back in it, will look tomorrow and take a photo.
Here’s a pic of a Nova bell housing The fork comes out at 7:30 instead of 9:00 If you find just the bell you can get a repop fork They work perfect with a flipped 39 pedal clutch lever
Lots of them on eBay are listed wrong, being Camaro or Chevelle There’s a couple on there now for under 200$ but I’ve always got em at a swap meet for under a hundie. Also lots of times the fork is listed wrong also The correct one is in the pic, you just drill the indentation for a pull rod, I use 5/16 bar stock and make a little rounded half ball that’s looks like a mini sbc rocker ball
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The OP didn't say what transmission he plans on using but I do know the early Chevy II bellhousings have a small opening and won't take a four speed (unless it's the 1963 Muncie) without machining them out, that makes them somewhat weaker because it removes some of the reinforcing ribs. The casting number for the 64-67 bellhousing is 3849309, they have gotten quite expensive nowadays.
For years I have made a SBC bellhousing that moves the clutch arm over to the right side and uses the little black Willwood pull slave cylinder. Looks factory when done. Works great. I think I still have a few kits left?
I used as S-10 T -5 on mine and just machined the OD of the throw out bearing snout flange. Was quite simple
62 Chevy truck bell housing the clutch fork is on the passenger side plus it has the mount for a slave cylinder
except for the chevy bolt pattern, it looks like the buick v6 skyhawk and later g-bodys ones. the fork angles down like that
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