Kickdown rod for a C4 in a Falcon

[TucsonHooligan]

I have a 170 in my 64 Falcon that was originally mated with a 3 speed manual. The previous owner put a C4 tranny out of a '68 in it instead. I need the lever for a kickdown on it, but am not sure 1. where to get one, and 2. how to hook it up proper since the carb is set up for a manual transmission. Can anyone point me in the right direction for instructions on how to do this and where to find the rod or, better yet, measurements on one so I could fabricate it? Any and all help is needed! Thanks!

Jim

 

[Eric Rose]

Can anyone point me in the right direction for instructions on how to do this and where to find the rod
Jim

What carb do you have?

My '62 had a '70 200 six with a Carter YF on it, so I found a Fairmont at the junkyard that had a YF carb and a C4 trans. and took all the kickdown linkage from it.

 

[TucsonHooligan]

It's the Carter standard as well. I found the cable, but the linkage eludes me. Any suggestions? Our junkyards in the Tucson area are pretty well stripped of classic car parts.

 

[rbohm]

8) the falcon had the kick down lever built into the accelerator bell crank. you can get one from autokrafters.

 

[ludwig]

Here are two shots of the stock Mustang setup with C4. The lever is clamped to the throttle linkage Z bar. At the lower end is a clamp nut where the cable and rod are connected. I did not feel like crawling under the car to get the tab from the tranny, but it is a lever with a round and flat area on top of the case. The cable from the kickdown lever connects to this. (Dont be confused by the wires running down the side. That is a rod with cable connector at the very end, running back to the trans.)

This is where the lever is connected. On the stock throttle linkage, there are flat reliefs on the shaft where the lever connects to the horizontal part.

 

[Eric Rose]

It's the Carter standard as well. I found the cable, but the linkage eludes me. Any suggestions? Our junkyards in the Tucson area are pretty well stripped of classic car parts.

Oh, man I just remembered my car had been converted to cable throttle by a previous owner. That might be something for you to consider, grabbing the throttle cable and kickdown linkage from a Maverick, Fairmont, Granada, or other later model Ford.

I really like the feel of the throttle pedal I have because it hangs from the top, unlike the older style Falcon pedals that come up from the floorboard.

But the way it mounts on mine is that there is a bell crank on top of the log. The throttle linkage pushes the bell crank down, and the other side of the bell crank pulls up on a rod that curves around the bellhousing down to the transmission.