Easy one that has me stumped. if I follow the diagram in the book and put the bend in the metal gas pedal rod the way it is shown when I looked it up, the bend stops the bar of the gas pedal from going through the hole it si intended to go through. I have bent the be-geezers out of the bar to get jsut enough curve to still snap into the back of the gas pedal and clear the firewall / floor hole, but no go.
from the pedal forward, can someone please give me an idea what goes to what etc.? I have all the parts, but if I place the gas pedal bar on the back of the pedal as it is intended, the knob on the pedal bar will not snap into its intended slot on the pedal back. pedal to bar to linkage to acc. cable to carb is all thats stopping me from a completed project I have never driven leaving the garage.

56 stepside 3/4 ton longbed