Making kickdown lever for carb

Dana67Dart said

1. Does the lever on the trans need to move forward or back to operate correctly?
2. Is your cable coming at the trans from the rear or from the front. It will determine if you need to pull the cable or push the cable.
3. The center to center on the trans lever would dictate the center to center of the lever on the carb. If the carb is 1.5 inch CL TO CL and the trans lever is 1inch CL to CL the trans lever will stop before the carb is at WOT.
4. The carb lever will work best if it starts at 8 and goes to 4 or visa versa. That gives you the most liner movement of the cable.
5. The trans end should do likewise

I would look at kits that are for sale on line and reproduce what they have done.

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the cable needs to be pulled to operate the kickdown lever on the trans correctly so this lever should work. I will crawl under the car later and take a measurement of the kickdown lever on the trans but estimating just now it was about 2.5" unfortunately i won't have enough room at the carb to make the lever that long. I will read up on lokars kit and see what they suggest too. I had it hooked up before on the 1 barrel carb with about a 1.5-2" lever and it worked alright as long as i set the tension right. I believe the lokar setup instructions said put the gas pedal to the floor and then set the kickdown cable to fully move the kickdown lever on the trans