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Title: anyone recognize this part ??
Post by: smedberg on Saturday,March 04, 2023, 07:29:22 AM
 :newhere: As I bought one of my TC:s partly "in boxes" I have a bracket that I cannot place.

It has been mounted somewhere in the enginge compartment and has been galvanized together with other brackets (that I can identify  :pirate:)

The car is a UK spec 1972 Twincam with a 352 gearbox.

There is also a remote possibility that there has been a mixup and this part really belongs to some other project from the seller...
Title: Re: anyone recognize this part ??
Post by: europa88 on Saturday,March 04, 2023, 07:44:30 AM
Looks as though it is part of the gear linkage assembly bolted to the chassis
Title: Re: anyone recognize this part ??
Post by: BDA on Saturday,March 04, 2023, 08:13:02 AM
It doesn’t look like any Europa part I’ve seen. When my car was new, it had a 365 which uses a similar shift linkage. It sounds like it’s something the DPO put on.
Title: Re: anyone recognize this part ??
Post by: SilverBeast on Saturday,March 04, 2023, 08:17:49 AM
It doesnt look like a part on my 74 Special (with a 365 gearbox) gear Iinkage, which is fundamentally the same as a 352 linkage I believe. The only part that bolts to the chassis is the gear lever, everything else bolts to the clutch housing or the selector shaft at the back of the gearbox.

I don't recognise the part from mine. Could it me a throttle/choke/clutch cable mounting that has been "improved/redesigned" by a previous owner?
Title: Re: anyone recognize this part ??
Post by: Arizona on Saturday,March 04, 2023, 08:31:45 AM
Not exactly the same but it appears to be similar to the part that I used to move the clutch cable attachment from the chassis to the engine block.
Title: Re: anyone recognize this part ??
Post by: europa88 on Saturday,March 04, 2023, 10:07:55 AM
Not exactly the same but, this is what I thought it could be part of. This is the gear shift rocker assembly on my Banks modded NG1 transmission
Title: Re: anyone recognize this part ??
Post by: 4129R on Saturday,March 04, 2023, 11:45:26 AM
It is pointing in the wrong direction for the block mounted clutch cable bracket.

I have never seem anything like that in the 7 that I have rebuilt.