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Try http://stores.ebay.com/leadmineproducts I have bought special bearings from him.. Great guy. If part is not listed contact him....
It depends on how much the r/pinion is worn and where the pattern is on the teeth. If it was set up correctly to begin with. Very hard to dial...
In 1986 I had a 47 Ford business coupe. Small block Chevy etc,etc. A locked 9" rear.. While I was at work, my wife at the time needed to go...
I did notice that with all this talk about intake spacers. No one mentioned the fact that a regular chevy style distributor will not work when...
Comes up HAMB error my computer. I am following your build. Just pulled a 30 out the northern Mich. woods.
Force of the oil pump drive and the taper of the cam lobes and lifters. Cam lobes are made slightly off center of the lifter bores. Lifters have...
In the mid sixties the local gas station owner had a stock 57 Ford with f-glass replacement front fenders on it. Same for Studebakers. They had a...
Big Block Chevy nitrided steel 454 cranks were consistantly .006-.007" runout back in the early seventies.. Sent a few back to Berger Chevrolet...
https://www.bopengineering.com/olds_v8.shtml bottom of page the seals supplied in the newer gasket sets use a government mandated non...
Modern performance "Moly" rings take a slick surface. In my work, I use a CK-10 or a CV 616 Sunnen hone. Final pass with a torque plate, is with...
And the complaint on the oval holes is from people that know not what they are doing.. Almost all SBC replacement flexplates have an oval hole in...
I have the same setup on the front of my "T bucket". Early seventies VW.
A job that requires a shop press and a few hand made press tools. I have done several impossible to replace pumps. Inside most modern pumps is a...
Mig welder.. Properly done will have no distortion, little or no filler.
Will bolt to the block but your intake manifold won't fit. Use Buick pushrods and rockers.
Since the early seventies. GM (Chevy) has used "shallow" oil ring grooves, also narrow top "shallow" rings. Several different "metric" top ring...
Ertel and Dyna gear, Ohio, are the same, all are gone. usually a Hastings 139 ring, available in iron or moly. 5/64-5/64-3/16" ring sizes. Do...
Built a 401 nailhead with the Hilborn tall tube system back in the late sixties. Had to tinker and usually run it fat.. Squirt it on first start,...
Back in the day. I used late fifties/early sixties GMC dual master and drivers side slave.. Still have one in the barn somewhere. Last one I...
264 t0 322 should be the same. The 364 and later use a smaller belhousing and starter and flywheel combos get complicated in some of these years....
Spent a lot of time in one of those. Worked for a used car/service dealer while going to college in the sixties. Car had a tow bar on the front,...
Had a HTP unit. That I was using for production of golf cart pickup beds/trailers. Decided to get a more powerful cutter. Bought a unit from the...
I agree. I lost a complete 425 nailhead in a building fire. All aluminum exterior parts were melted. Carbs were melted down into the intake....
As stated the outer ring is standard can filter stuff. I make the inner from closed cell gasket material. Real parts stores sell it.
Yes, The old add,, "You're in good hands with Allstate". So long as their hands are in your pocket!
Because of the small bore, 396-402 pistons have to have a huge dome to fill the head.. Even tho they look tall, the pistons were only rated as 11-1.
Been there.. In Michigan, with State Farm insurance. Lost a packed 20x40 building. 32" of snow fall in two days. Roof collapsed. Next day 36 x...
Sorry, those were Childs and Albert, old bankrupt stock and some King bearings. Long gone and as far as I know, no longer available.. BOB ps....
Those are 375 hp. 396 pistons + .030" which makes them 402 pistons. They were 11-1 compression with the large rectangle port, closed chamber...
Not really the case.. The reason older BBC's were/are hard on valves was the lack of good stock type valve springs. Back in the day, there were...
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