Gas pedal linkage rod

[Harry Moon]

so it fully opens the carburator. Easier to adjust before you install the radiator or front clip.

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Jordan

One of my trucks has a link like this, the other if I remember correctly has an adjustable link at that location.

One thing is critical is that you have the spring loaded override link on the other side. The problem being that either you don't get full throattle or when you put the peddle to the metal the linkage tries to push the carb past full throattle which may bend or break the carb.

Cheers Phil

[hrpearce]

Hi Jordan, This is the linkage in my C15A.
Fig 16 Page Q-9 in MB-C2 shows the linkage set up.

[Grant Bowker]

I like the concept of adjustability. As Phil said, being able to have the pedal on the floor without jamming the carburetor and also having the linkage relaxed at idle is good.
I may have to make an adjustable link, should be easy enough. The hardest part may be cross drilling the rod for a cotter pin so I may need to make a jig (actually, I should make/buy jigs for both plain rods and for drilling bolts for cotter pins and castle nuts).

[rob love]

A center punch and a drill press go a long way towards drilling roundstock. Add to that the self centering drill bits commonly available today and there should be no need for a jig.

[Paul Singleton]

I have welded a piece of angle iron to a piece of square tubing
so I could clamp it in the vise on the drill press. Then make sure that when you pull the drill bit down as if you were drilling that it hits the bottom of the V in the angle. Then sit the round stock in the angle iron and it will not move and the hole will be centred when you drill.