US Car Tool A518 Cross member

junkyardhero said

thanks for posting this up matt. very very helpful as i inch forward with my junk.

confirming my suspicions on how to use/wire up the OD & LU along with the TV cable & throttle bracket stuff is a tremendous help.

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I ran into a few issues routing the cable for the kickdown away from the rear cooler line. To this end, I picked a couple cable support brackets out of the boneyard and believe that the dakota cable works best with the B350 ram van cable bracket, kickdown lever and springs at the trans end

The dakota V8 cable works the best to route FWD of the crossmember. I can post individual pix of this stuff if you want to see more closeup detail on any of this. Mounting the throttle and kickdown to a bracket bolted on with the carb hold down bolts is honestly the best way to do this.

When I went down the road to installing this trans, I looked at what everybody was doing on this site, then I picked out all the ideas I felt worked the best from everybody in the collective, plus some of my own.

Thanks !!
Matt