Willanthry Chev Blitz C60L Restoration

[Phil Waterman]

Originally Posted by Willanthry

Well, after some work, ....... The accelerator linkage problem still needs to be got around, so to speak; the water pump prevents the linkage from going in it's usual place across the front of the engine. Anyone else struck this problem? How'd you get around it?

Several people have of course done the 235/261 conversion, and the the accelerator linkage across the front of the block is a general issue. In all cases that I have seen it means fabricating a new accelerator cross linkage.

How you go at it depends a lot on which water pump approach you use. From your pictures looks like you are using the 235 stock water pump which is lower than the original 216 water pump, but as the top or thermostat housing is where mounting bolts for the cross shaft connects it is more of an issue of making it fit your thermostat housing. With the lower water pump you don't have the clearance problems of squeezing the cross shaft behind the water pump fitting.

I've fabricated two cross shaft linkages to fit two different engines, I'll dig out photos of both post them and perhaps everybody else who done could do likewise.

While I dig for pictures check http://www.canadianmilitarypattern.c...ifications.htm

Hope this helps

Cheers Phil