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| | | Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 384 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 384 | Hi
I am dropping in a 283 in the Viking.
But want to still use the foot starter and the ingnition key as it is.
Anyone who has a good solution for that ?
/Ulf
My Chevy Viking 1959Ulf Hedlund. Eskilstuna. Sweden [email protected]Also: Ford Galaxie 4 dr 1959 Ford Custom 4 dr 1964 Ford Mustang GT 2005
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,771 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,771 | You can fake it with a switch mounted to the floor in the same location as the original start pedal to energize the starter solenoid. There was a tech tip, or maybe just a thread on the subject some time ago. A heavy-duty starter switch from a farm tractor was used, with an extension bolt and the original pedal cap to make the conversion. Pretty tricky! There's no way to adapt a real stomp starter to a V8.
Jerry
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,384 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,384 | I posted some pics on that for the '48 2 ton, ( maybe 2 yrs ago?)still working fine.
One update - using the original pedal mounting stud made the pedal so high that it was easy to get too much sideways force.
Cut the end off and rethreaded so the pedai is an inch above the cap.
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 384 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 384 |
My Chevy Viking 1959Ulf Hedlund. Eskilstuna. Sweden [email protected]Also: Ford Galaxie 4 dr 1959 Ford Custom 4 dr 1964 Ford Mustang GT 2005
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,384 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,384 | | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,771 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,771 | No, more like this: https://www.amazon.com/R3682-Tracto...=8-1&keywords=farmall+starter+switchThe switch bolts to the floor, and a cap is fabricated with a short bolt welded to it to slip over the push button with the original stomp starter button screwed onto it. If you can find an original accordion-shaped rubber dust boot to cover it up, it looks almost original. Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,987 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,987 | Looks like both you guys were typing at the same time!  | | | | | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,987 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,987 | That looks like one ones in the above posts. It looks like it should work for what you want to do. | | |
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