Pete,
I'm confused...lol. I thought you were trying to connect a hand brake lever to a normal rear axle parking brake setup, now I see you have a drum brake on the rear of the SM465...is that stock to that trans? If so, why aren't you looking for the correct lever and linkage to put it all back stock?
Mike B
The panel truck is a 1961 Apache C30 (1 ton)
I bought it with no drive train.
After I bought it and started looking it over harder I couldn't find the parking brake cables.
That's when I learned it came with a trans mounted parking brake on the original SM420 trans.
So it was a floor(actually trans mounted) parking brake lever from new.
Since I know later sixes better than anything else I had no plans for putting in a 235 or 261 engine.
A 292 is a no brainer for a 1 ton truck.
The rear in that is a 5.14 so I ended up getting a manual shift 2 speed overdrive that goes between the bellhousing and the transmission which hitches everything back a bit, 7" or so.( including the holes for the shift lever and P/B lever)
The step van had a V-8 and the 465 trans with the parking brake on it.
It used a cable up to the dash board but I wanted to keep the floor lever.
So when it's done I have 3 levers to fondle. The O/D unit, the transmission, and the parking brake.
I'll have to figure out how to locate the three holes in the floor hump since it would be nice not to turn that nice flat and un-holed cover into a hatchet job.
Pete
