1 st post and novice mechanical...need RPO for my 83 5 speed HO MANUAL camaro Z-28...need the linkage MK4,MK5,MK6.????....not sure which linkage (belt crank to clutch release arm ) i should use with my Z-Bar...car in shop need to know ASAP which linkage ...PLSSSSS HELP.....NOVICE with this stuff thankyou...its my 1st new car and kept all these yrs....love it ...Mark

 

 

Sorry, I threw away that whole steaming POS out of my 83 L69 car in about 1989, after it sat around for acoupla years after I took it out in about 1986, when I converted it to hydraulics. ASTOUNDING improvement.

Looked like the one labelled MK6 in your blowup if memory serves.

 

thankyou for your response and MK6...looks good ...and theres hope with converting to hydraulics if needed ...trying to keep original just run once a month then back into garage...thanx again Mark...big help

 

Yeah I had stick-shift cars since ... well, I won't say when ... but let's just say, that 83 was FAR FROM my first. All of them with Z-bar linkage like that. All of them troublesome, fragile, undependable (I recall one time the adjuster link fell out of a 69 Chevelle I had going over a railroad track), rough operating (I had a 79 Z28 that if I let my foot off the clutch REAL SLOW, I could just almost completely lose contact with the pedal before it would spring up past about halfway), and so on. I always thought there HAD TO BE a better way.

I got tired of the one in my 83 always grinding when I shifted too fast. Turned out, the combination of the engine moving forwards on the mounts and the firewall bending rearwards, was taking the force off of the Z-bar, and therefore not fully disengaging the clutch.

I came across a wrecked 84 in the local buzzard nest in maybe late summer 86 and stripped all the hydraulic stuff off of it. Pedals, BH, hydraulics, fork, everything. AMAZING how much better it was. Clutch and transmission of course are the same so none of that had to change.