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Over the last few days I was still awaiting the arrival of my seat cover so I decided to move on to another task.
I had my Fenton exhaust and spare intake blasted and then paint with VHT Flamproof paint and bake. Also got the existing manifolds removed from my engine. Was able to get new gasket from my local FLAPS. I also removed my oil filter canister. And after some discussion in the Engine Shop Forum I decided to leave the canister off for now and plugged the ports.

Now that I got the replacement manifolds installed, I need to decide which carburetor to use. The truck had ran well on the Rochester that was on it. The Weber was given to me when I purchased the manifold so I may try that. First obstacle I need to over come is to how to set up the throttle linkage. The mass of the back Fenton manifold is definitely in the way of the stock linkage.

So if anyone has done this swap in the past and has pictures or parts source to rectify this problem I would certainly be interested.

Thanks