Attempting to adjust my linkage on the 66. Can I buy the alinment gage at a local parts store? Wondering what it looked like. Thanks, Joe DeLuca
4 Speed Alignment gage
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Locating gauge width is 0.646" (the important dimension), by 1/8" thick. No length is given, but a Long Island gauge I have is about 3 inches long; it was much thinner, at (guessing) 0.05", which made it easy to make a 90 degree bend, which serves as a handle.
The first 2 measurements are from '65 Corvette Shop Manual, which continues with another ~8 lever/rod adjustment steps. I'm sure they apply to all 4-speed linkages for the '64-7 years.- Top
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Joe,
Doubt you can by the gage at a parts store. I got mine from Long Island Corvette, but a guy could make the same thing out of heavy gauge sheet metal if you had the dimensions. It is about the same size as a tongue depressor only shorter.
Regards,
Dale- Top
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I tried for weeks to locate the tool.I called dozens of Muncie Dealers. The manual has the dementions. Home Depot has 1/8 inck ALU. stock that you can tripple up to make the correct 3/8 width. I have the drawing but don't know how to produce it here. Jeff68 L79 Convertible: Triple Black: Work In Progress, Body off. Now on!
2014 Arctic White Z51 Vert. (Wifes)- Top
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If you do adjust the shifter with the trans in the car I'd like to see the gage you ended up using; I couldn't get anything to work with the trans in. I adjusted my linkage when I did a clutch job while the trans was out.- Top
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Hi,
Bubba is alive and doing some of his best/worst work in Westminster.
He made the gauge from a Shur-Line white plastic paint scraper from Home Depot.
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Regards,
Alan71 Coupe, 350/270, 4 speed
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it can be done. I made my own tool from 1/8" stock at work and milled to the exact dimension. I cheated on the in car adjustment though, I had my daughtter hold the tool while I worked the linkages. I still have my Bubba tool in my box......somewhere. I do remember seeing it a short time ago, just not where.
DonOThe light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.- Top
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I made a tool out of an old beer can opener. I adjusted the linkage in the car.... tough job getting the "tool" in place.... had to shorten and bend it to get it into the slot. Actual adjustment was easy.- Top
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I made a "bubba" tool from aluminum siding. The thickness of the material doesn't matter just the width does. I still have the tool, but only used it once. The advantage of using the thin aluminum is that it was easy to bend.- Top
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