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 ch***is, 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 p***enger 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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