so a fella calls me from london he says hes got pedals and linkage for me but no pics he was $400 includes shipping he wants a e transfer !how can i be sure hes for real and im not just sending money awy and nothing is sent to me thx guys
You'll see the 69/70 clutch pedal is different than the 65-68, and also you'll need the z-bracket.
I used that link as a guide when converting my 70 Parisienne from 3 speed auto to 4 speed, and the info was exactly what I needed. Do not forget about the unique clutch fork and fork stud.
Also the neutral safety switch is unique to 1969, and requires a pin that bolts to the clutch pedal to trip the switch. The switches are available on eBay, and there's a guy who makes the pin. I was going to use a 69 switch in my 70, but there was nowhere to mount it.
Clint, on my 6 speed conversion in the 94 Impala I mounted a clutch switch from a pickup, I think from the 80's or 90's, right on the firewall and just made it so the clutch pedal had to be touching the carpet pretty much. Although I used that for the reverse lockout on the T56 to keep it from being put in reverse without the pedal all the way down, but you could do the same thing very easily for your safety switch. I like the piece of mind a clutch switch offers.
__________________
1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Here's some photo's of the 69 Neutral Safety Switch setup:
I really don't remember where I got the pin that's show in the 2nd & 3rd photo's, but someone reproduces them. I sold the setup I had as I went with a 1970 setup that's entirely different.
I still kick myself that we didn't harvest the complete clutch pedal setup off dad's old '70 Biscayne. His was a 3-in-the-tree but it would have had the rare hard to find parts like the fork & pedals. The backdrive was redundant in our case because of the column shift. Had a radio block-off plate as well. All went to the scrap yard 40 years ago when the car was scrapped. Manual drum pedal pads, nothing fancy.
Jeez, my daily driver has more miles on it than the old Biscayne and is the same age, yet it still looks & drives like new. I guess dad was a very busy man, plus logging roads & the odd flood crossing were also tough on it. We drove to Tijuana in it, and Vancouver Island, crossed the Salt Flats & the Nevada desert, plus it was ferried across the Ottawa River and also went to Newfoundland. He used it as a hunting & fishing car after '74. 140,000 miles was considered a high number back then. Dad didn't say it but I could easily imagine him having said, "son, a man with a clean car has nothing else."
A few years ago one member over at ImpalaSS427.com had enough interest to get a small batch the proper floor shift boots made. Currently ImpalaSS427.com is MIA due to the domain expiring & somebody registering it before it could get renewed. At least the message board is still active for those who know how to find it: http://members5.boardhost.com/impalass427/index.html
__________________
67 Chevelle Malibu Sport Coupe, Oshawa-built 250 PG never disturbed.
In garage, 296 cid inline six & TH350...
Cam, Toronto.
I don't judge a man by how far he's fallen, but by how far back he bounces - Patton
I actually found a thread where a member is offering the floor shift boot that was used on 68-69 Chevrolet B-bodies. Pretty sure it would also be correct for the equivalent Canadian Pontiac B-bodies.
thx guys after talking to this guy from london i couldnt believe his story that he doesnt have a phone with pics ! so i said just to test him how about i just ask a canadian pontiac guy to come and pay for them and he still wanted me to send $100 to prove im serious !so i told him to get lost i guess he was a scam i never had anyone that would go look but it tricked him im glad i didnt loose 400 thx abc 123 if we do this for each other none of us will ever get scammed !i would send any of u guys stuff and just send me a cheque after u recieve it like a few of u have done for me thx guys ! needless to say im still lookin for peddles and linkage
Wow, but that's the floor shift boot, right, which is different from the console boots?
Through the ImpalaSS427 crowd I bought new boots for my 4-speed console. There's an upper and a lower, $200 each as repros, so you're into it for $400 in just seals!
thx guys after talking to this guy from london i couldnt believe his story that he doesnt have a phone with pics ! so i said just to test him how about i just ask a canadian pontiac guy to come and pay for them and he still wanted me to send $100 to prove im serious !so i told him to get lost i guess he was a scam i never had anyone that would go look but it tricked him im glad i didnt loose 400 thx abc 123 if we do this for each other none of us will ever get scammed !i would send any of u guys stuff and just send me a cheque after u recieve it like a few of u have done for me thx guys ! needless to say im still lookin for peddles and linkage
Well handled Danny.
If I can get away to my favourite wrecking yard one of these weekends I plan to pull those 68 pedals as long as they are still there.
__________________
1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
If I can get away to my favourite wrecking yard one of these weekends I plan to pull those 68 pedals as long as they are still there.
While your there Carl, don't forget to look out for my mirror...and maybe look for a original AM/FM 8 track or cassette radio that might be in a 1975/76 Chevelle
I know there's a 70-71 AM/FM 8 track in a big Chevy wagon. I don't typically look in the later 70's cars but he's crushed a lot of them anyway.
Carl, I'm looking for my brother in law (Christmas present)...he owns the 1975 Chevelle Laguna that frequented this site some time back....2 years only 75/76.
Carl
Here's another small part to put on your shopping list.
1 or 2 of the chrome ( ss? ) quadrant dividers that are on the outer rim of a 64 Beaumont steering wheel. They appear to just clip over the wheel segments. I'm told that A and B body are different.
Thanks,
Here's another small part to put on your shopping list.
1 or 2 of the chrome ( ss? ) quadrant dividers that are on the outer rim of a 64 Beaumont steering wheel. They appear to just clip over the wheel segments. I'm told that A and B body are different.
Thanks,
What are they the same as? This is an American yard.
__________________
1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars