Try Heavy Chevy or Chevy Duty, they have linkage kits for the V8 swap.
Mike Boteler
'56 4400 Stake
'56 6400 Stake
'56 8400 Wrecker
'56 9200 Tractor w/Powermatic
'57 10500 Fire Truck
Hughesville, MD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Devin Timmons" <64bowtie@quik.com>
To: "oletrucks list" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 12:03 AM
Subject: [oletrucks] motor swap
> hey gang, got the 327 dropped into my truck this weekend. Took about 4
hours
> to get the 235 removed, then about another 2 hours to actually get the 327
> sitting on its mounts in the engine bay. Came home from work tonight and
> spent 3 hours arguing with the transmission about going in place, but with
the
> help of a neighbor, it finally went in. Sure wish I had known I had to
> seperate them to do this. Now I have run into some other little problems.
I
> understood that I would have to do something with the throttle linkage,
but
> hadn't been able to get a good look at it until I was actually taking the
6
> out. What I had worked fine for the 6, but how did the factory set it up
to
> work with a 283? The only catalog I have here is LMC, and they don't list
> anything for that. I'd rather stay with stock looking stuff than go to a
> cable, so any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Devin
> '57 3100
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