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If you need or want a full sized truck trans, try and find an NP-445 instead of a 435. All synchro and much better ratios. 4.46 first and third is...
When checking automatic transmissions, it's always best to drop the pan with the trans in the normal installed position because, like panning for...
Apparently 49-53 Chev torque tube style u-joints are unobtanium, or so I have been told, with good used ones going for big money. Anybody know of...
...Don't get one off a late-model Dodge pickup. Dodge uses the ECU to externally regulate the alternator. Yabut you can use a normal regulator...
I spent a few years pitting on a buddies sprint car and witnessed some real good racing and some real good parties and some real outrageous...
A good parts man is a priceless asset to a mechanic, and the good ones are almost never paid what they are worth. Maybe the rotten wages are what...
FWIW, Earliest Toyoglides were a shrunken iron Powerglide ¸(in aluminum) later Toyoglides were a shrunken alum Powerglide, then they went to a...
FWIW, I remember Ak Miller did a column for HRM back in the day, which was actually a Ford ad, but interesting. He did a few on Ford 6s, both...
``...There used to be an exact twin of this car running around Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in the early eighties. First and only stick shift Monte...
`...Also left out two of the most well respected factory smc alum. intakes: Casting # 3844461-- 64-65 Corvette (365 hp) & 65 Chevelle (350 hp)....
Bondo AKA salve or medicine is good when used appropriately, however we live in an imperfect world. An excellent, though lazy, bodyman buddy of...
Re: comments on 409 truck engine durability Worked for a while at a chemical plant. One of the local truck lines hauled muriatic acid out of...
In about '67 or so I traded into a 66 Satellite, Hemi 4 speed. Taught me a lot about living on Kraft dinner etc. By '68 or so I realized I needed...
One of the Mopar stores I worked at had the key board behind the chick tower in the showroom, next to a row of those half high walls for the sales...
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