1956 Chevy 3100 stepside pickup with 235 6 cylinder:
Check these two pictures, please. One, is there too much gap from trans to yoke? Just finished putting in new U-joints on the driveshaft so even though it was getting pretty hot I decided to put the shaft in. Sure appears to be a lot of spline shaft showing.
Two, while reassembling the engine I noticed this item just nearly touching the exhaust flange. I'm just guessing, but I think it is the old temperature sending unit. There's a newer one on the head that has a wire thru the firewall with a slide-on clip that I think goes on it. I left this old unit on the engine since there is no opening for it to leak fluids. What is this if not a sending unit?
Is the full weight of the vehicle sitting on the tires? If the rear axle is hanging down with no weight on it, the slip yoke will be at its full rearward position- - - - -more of the yoke will slide into the transmission once the full vehicle weight is on the wheels- - - -or at least on a pair of jack stands supporting the axle tubes. The stud sticking out of the block is the pivot point for the gas pedal linkage- - - -as long as it's not actually touching the exhaust, it's OK. Jerry
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In the second picture I believe you are asking about the exhaust manifold heat riser? When the engine is cold, it will direct the warm exhaust up to warm up the carburetor. When the engine warms up, the heat riser will rotate and direct the exhaust down through the exhaust pipe. There should be a heat sensitive spring on the other side of the exhaust manifold.
Or, are you talking about the Bell Crank Mounting Stud? This is where the carb linkage connects from the gas pedal to carb.
Last edited by UtahYork; 09/17/20263:57 AM.
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IT may be the picture or my eyes, but the slip shaft looks square to me. yep thats the throttle pivot. those hoses might not like living that close to the exhaust pipe.
That's the factory location for those oil filter hoses. They seem to do fine there.
1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy)
1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
Thanks for the info, fellas. I did real good this time on labeling parts and bagging/tagging them for this restoration. But, I failed in taking enough pictures to review for the reassembling. Now that I know what it is I should be able to resurrect the throttle linkage off this pivot. Hot Rod Lincoln, there is no weight on the back whatsoever, so I am worrying needlessly. Thanks to all again for your rapid response.
a local drive line builder would have you push the yoke in as far as it would go and then pull it out 1", then measure the rear fit. this would be for a cruiser no lifted rigs.
