Broke my 7UP Pop Machine today....

[moparsaver]

Glad to see the birds all back together and ready for an adventure!

Wile E. sure looks anxious!

 

[dadsbee]

More shop cleaning all day, got a spot for the Formula S cleaned out, the Swinger fired right up on 3 cranks, after 5 months down, and the Bird is in the air so I can do the shifter linkage adjustment tomorrow.

 

[Chargerjase]

Beautiful job as always Wayne. I love the attention to detail you provide on all of your cars clean ups. Thanks for sharing and enjoy driving that stunning car.

 

[dadsbee]

It's got a wing, it gets airplane parts. Sloppy existing linkage tossed and made a precision one from an AN throttle/ governor rod end, a threaded rod end tube and a section of OE linkage.

Inventory now one less...

Don't think it will leave me short!

Length figured out, linkage cut and ground down enough so it slid into the rod end.

Welded together and cleaned up. Then gave it a quick shot of BBQ paint after this shot, then lunch.

Shifter lever end installed.

Transmission end with all slop removed. Had to re and re twice to get the length perfect. Starts in park and neutral and goes into each gear position perfectly. Most importantly it locks the transmission into park.

Time for a test drive. Need to see if 2 days of rain washed the streets in the am, then it's on... I hope.

 

[GTXDAN]

I've been working on my 70 GTX and noticed that the throttle rod where it connects to the trans has no clip/cotter pin. It's just like your car with console shifter. Can you tell me what goes on there. It has no hole for a cotter pin.

 

[dadsbee]

I've been working on my 70 GTX and noticed that the throttle rod where it connects to the trans has no clip/cotter pin. It's just like your car with console shifter. Can you tell me what goes on there. It has no hole for a cotter pin.

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I suspect the clip or cotter that was in there broke off and the remains are in the hole!

Some day on mine I need to put the lock out linkages back. For now I just have the one attached to the column lever jammed into the frame rail to hold it where I can get the key out.

 

[GTXDAN]

I took it off and there is no hole, so I'm thinking there must be some kind of clip. The SM doesn't show or say anything about the end that connects to the trans.

 

[Photon440]

Perhaps it had some sort of flat spring clip like a throttle rod?