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If you stepped down to a 75 or 70 series, the overall height of the wheel and tire should stay the same. It wouldn't rub then, would it?
Vacuum advance distributor? Disturbed vacuum line while fixing carb? Just a thought.
Psychological experiment: Go back to one of the cruises with the spot savers, walk up to a stranger, and tell them what happened here. Then ask...
Tell me again why you are upset? It sounds like a bunch of old retired guys realized they would be hungry by 5 and ready for bed by 8, so they...
They all stayed out too late one night and when the dawn came, well ...
Unless his 289 has the oddball bellhousing bolt pattern, which is a good possibility in a '64. As mentioned above by others.
As Gimpy said, the M5R2 has an integral bellhousing. The 3.8 (at least the RWD version) had the same bolt pattern as the common 302 and 351...
Ford never sold a 6 cylinder Turbo Coupe. The Turbo Coupe on the Fox platform (1983-1988) had a turbo 2.3L 4 cylinder, similar to the Mustang SVO...
It would be very simple to recover this truck. Simply dynamite the bridge, collect the truck fragments from the bottom of the gorge, and rebuild...
The info I found on Exxon's website indicates that Varsol is about the same as kerosene or mineral spirits, but is specially formulated to have a...
I wish my car was made out of statue of liberty. Then maybe I wouldn't have a growing rust hole in the trunk.
Your car didn't come with one?
This is what OEMs have been doing for a few decades - a simple pinch bolt, with a slight recess ground in one side of the shaft to let the pinch...
I agree that it is best to keep yourself out of the action zone entirely. A grill can be a help, though, in case you drop something. I see...
I don't really see how this can be true. My reasoning is this. Air will always flow from a high pressure zone to a low pressure zone to find...
I agree with you, mostly. One thing I don't get is that if you browse Summit or something like that, the universal kits cost about as much (if...
Some interesting stuff being posted here. If electric fans are so terrible, the OEMs must be just about penniless by now. This is because just...
That just makes it more depressing. Especially when some of your difficulties are related to decisions made for cost or ease of manufacturing.
Ok. That's a pretty skinny gap. I wouldn't expect that to cause problems of this sort. (For reference, my daily driver is an off-topic...
What is the plug gap? Is the engine completely stock internally? If the problem is in fact ignition related, then the reason the problem...
The colors in posts 32 and 36 look root beer brown to me. Post 56, maybe, but the edited image makes it hard to tell. Pretty much all the other...
Why would you customize the car halfway and then sell it? Customizations, by definition, are a matter of individual preference. Maybe half your...
Glad to see progress. Also, taking the thermostats out is good in a way because it should make the temperatures more responsive to timing changes...
Following that line of thinking, if there is no vacuum advance on this distributor, but the previous one had it, then it stands to reason that the...
You still can remove it. It's just you can't remove it without also removing some of the paint you want to keep. It sounds like it won't hold...
Maybe so, but it's also a lot riskier. Maybe he will have 3 years and $9,000 invested, be hit with hard times and be unable to finish it, have to...
Looks like Wikipedia has a pretty nice section on removing it. It seems to include just about all of the suggestions here. I think whatever you...
Sounds like 1, 2, and 3 just killed the deal. Now if you find $4,000, put that in the bank for a rainy day, find another $4,000 for all the...
You might need the lash caps after all. If those stems are as round as they look, they may not last long. And if they have been ground down,...
+1 to this comment. +3" to the pillars. :rolleyes: :)
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