Fmans Dart 427 build #9818 - 14" Leather steering wheel

[Fman]

I had installed a manual gate for my fresh air system, after reaching down a few times to open and close the vent I decided to improve it by adding a cable push/pull system to open and close the vents. This is also much easier to do now than once the body goes on the car. I picked up two choke cables and a pack of cable stops.

Dorman choke cable:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Dorman cable stops:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I ended up using some 1" L alum channel I had in my garage to make the bracket to hold the pull lever. This cable system is really nice to open and close the gates and is much easier than reaching down with your hand and doing it on the gate. It was a cheap upgrade less than $20 all in.

Here is drivers side cable run, I wanted to keep it away from foot box pedals and throttle linkage. It runs on the outside of the fuse box. I had to flip the gate 180 degrees to allow the actual gate to slide upward to open. Pretty easy swap, couple new holes and had to add extra piece of carpet to patch up the small gap. I also trimmed some of the sheet metal on the vent to clear the back of the pedal box assembly. The cable is held in place with a cushion clamp that is bolted with a nylock nut to the footbox.





I mounted the pull knob on outside of the drivers lower cross member area. The passenger side is in the same place. This seems to be a good spot, even with knob pulled out 2.5" there is plenty of clearance to get in and out of the car.



Passenger side gate and pull knob, no modification was needed other than drilling a small hole in the actual gate. The cable runs along the top of the footbox and hooks around the back area to the gate. All of this is completed hidden and cant be seen when car is on the ground.