Bell to block braces

Well I read my 1967 and 1980 FSM's last night neither of them mention bell to block struts for the manual transmissions.

Of course that doesn't make me feel any better because it only mentioned them for the auto trans in the 1980 FSM and not the 1967 FSM, and my 68 auto definitely had them.

I also remember them being on my 67 slant car. But I have never worked on a stock V8 manual trans car.

As this post has had 70 plus views and no concrete answer, I am beginning to think the manual didn't use struts or braces. Guess I'll probably call Brewers or Passon and just ask them.