Converting S10 Emmons 6-pedal p/p to 3+4

Eric Philippsen · From: Central Florida USA

I found a ‘67 Emmons S10 6-pedal/no-knee steel. Kept in a closet all these decades. All original including 13 extra bellcranks on the cross-shafts. I want to convert it to a 3+4.

Can some of the existing cross-shafts be used for those new KL’s? Did the S10’s from that year use long or short KL’s? Any other advice or thoughts before I start down that road?

Thanks.

Jeremy Steele · From: Princeton, NJ USA

I have converted a push pull set up for C6 with six pedals and one knee lever to an E9 setup with 3 pedals and 4 knee levers. All the existing cross shafts were usable. I had a friend with a metal shop create the added knee levers.

Jon Light · From: Saugerties, NY

The shafts bearing the actual lever or the rodded puller will want a hole drilled in them. Standard flat-spot locking the way the bellcranks are tightened on will probably not endure the torque stress of the knee action. I can't recall at the moment whether they need to be tapped or if you can thru-bolt them with a nut.

Note that my approach emphasizes functionality vs. authenticity (which I respect but which would have been a burden on the GS-10 on which I added two levers (already a violation of authenticity).

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