Ok, This was breifly covered in the Fila thread, but how do I convert an Edelbrock to work with the AOD. It still has the rod on it. Would it be eaiser to go to a throttle cable? I know I can fab a bracket for it to work but I need more direction. Anyone do this / have a pic?
Anyone at all?
Your car does not have a "kickdown".
Ok, TV Rod or what ever the thing is, how can I get it to work with the carb? Can you offer any more wisdom Claude?
Look in Summit or Jeggs.Lokar makes a TV cable for the carb and AOD.I THINK it's under $50.00,and it's worth every cent.
You would think the kid would have a Jegs book.. I have dozens of them and the Ford TV adapter is in every issue.
Fila,if you don't have their catalogs,just find them online and order one.They'll put you on their mailing list for free.TONS of parts in either one.
I had the summit, a year one stang book, and a few stang' catalogs, not a jeggs. I just don't know what to order. In suppit they have 2 vabled. Both for AOD's. And Scott made some mention of being able to fab a bracket from the carb to the TV rod. Which would be better, spend the $50 odd on the kit or try to fab it for less?
depends on what you want something fabbed that could fail or something made to do the job...
that doesnt make a lick of sense,,,
thats like saying, since i built my deck instead of paying someone else to fab it up,, it will fail.
Scott, your the one that told me to fab something. Can you even use paint to give me a clue of what to do? I know how it shorks and how it connected to the CFI but it's not even close on the carb. I though ti would just have to ut a stud on the carb and put the TV roc and a return spring. I know this is more then likely wrong but thats why i'm asking for help.
When I switched to the 4 barrel Edlebrock that I have on the car now, I had to use this EDL-1483. Its an adapter for the TV rod it was about $20 at Summit. I then had to make slight adjustments at the transmission so it would kick into passing gear at the appropriate time.
Thanks Kyle, thats the Info I needed. Did you change anyting else or change anything else?
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I just thought of something else,, instead of two holes,,, just make sure one end is big enough to hold the plastic bushing form the tv rod,, then make the other end slotted so it is adjustable. that would make it possible for you to do all the tweeking up at the engine bay. If you break the bushing, they are sitll avail at ford very cheap.
i have no idea what the actual out of the box parts look like but ill imagie they achieve the same concept.
I had to adjust the TV rod where it goes into the carb, but that is just a matter of loosing the bolt and adjusting it, take a drive, adjust so on and so forth. I can try to get some pics of the current setup at the carb if you like.
If you would please Kyle. And Scott, thanks also.
no problem,, hope that helped.