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Can anyone please tell me anything about the accelerator pedal rod pictured here in the first picture? What do the rivets attach? Is it a 1933, and they just use that picture when they wrote the manual? The picture is figure 284 on page 135 of the factory 1934 Chevrolet repair manual. The picture shows two rivets in the rod where it engages the starterator fork. The four rods I have are solid, like in the second picture.

Bill, I don’t think there are any rivets involved, there is a small bracket bolted to the block on the left side, a center bolt and clamp, and another bracket that bolts to the block on the right side that fastens the vacuum unit. This is looking from the back of the engine, like in the manual picture. The left bracket is not really a full clamp, but more like a c bracket that helps hold the starterator rod. The accelerator rod is only attached to the pedal and the linkage on the block. Send a PM if you want.

Thank you for replying, Master Six. The rivets to which I am referring are on the pedal rod, just forward of where it engages the starterator fork, shown in the picture. I have never seen a pedal rod like that, but a friend said he was talking to another person about that rod with the rivets, and that person said it was a change made latter in the model-year. I would like to know if anyone has heard that or see a rod like that, and what is it that the rivets hold together? I have a 1934 built in April and another built in May, and neither has the rod with the rivets.

I suppose it is possible a change could have been made, my '34 was built in Tarrytown ,NY plant in April and the rod does not have rivets.

in December 1932 Service News there is a clearer picture of the starterator, actually is the same picture in the 1934 Service manual. Describes the 1933 model features. So maybe the 1933 had an accelerator rod with rivets attaching some sort of bracket to it.

Thank you, Master Six. I suspected the picture in the 1934 repair manual was a file photo from 1933. The rods for 1933 and 1934 do have different part numbers. I'll try to find the 1932 service news.

I just looked, NO rivets on the accelerator rod for my 1933 Master.

Thank you for the reply, Vila.

Is it possible that a very early version of the rod had a "shelf" riveted on? Later a cheaper way was adopted with the notch forged into the rod itself.
Just a thought.

Mike