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Be careful with the metal ones. They are cast iron and will break if dropped. I used to buy the fiber donuts 25 to a box. They work on 60s...
They call it stainless steel. That's the only picture I currently have that shows the gray color. Hold the torch about 3" away and pull the...
The original header pipes for these manifolds had a fold that formed the flange for the gasket to sit on. Just using the donut alone is not enough...
[IMG] I use the brush on stuff from Eastwood. Use the cutting torch to burn off any paint that might burn off in the future and then brush it on...
Just get a 6V reproduction sending unit for your car and "dumb down" the voltage to the gauge so that it alone operates on 6V. Ive had all kinds...
For me the first thing to do is find out exactly how hot the engine is running. Guessing is not diagnosing. An infrared thermometer or a different...
Much better... you don't want to know what was running through my brain when looking at the first picture.:D It looks like a hotrod dash now. My...
I found an NORS Atlas brand regulator that has sat on a shelf for 50 years. Pretty sure it was made in America by Americans. I polarized mine...
I hope he gets a kick out of my concern. those of us of a certain age always fear the worst. Paranoid I guess. His books always taught us how to...
Tell him that a lot of guys miss him. When I read the title I said "oh no" out loud. Fortunately I jumped the gun. I'll be looking for his memoirs.
It's home made what ever it was. It could be an Austin when it was factory assembled. Lots of cars got chopped and altered until none of the...
I called Curry and I saved a lot of money. I knew what I wanted axle flange to axle flange. He told me what model and year Ford axle to buy so...
I just try to relate what it was really like back then and not what some 20 something thinks it might have been. I lived it and loved it. East...
I assembled a 421SD from parts for my 63 Catalina in 1968. Very few of my 389 parts worked on the SD engine. I was young and dumb but I got it...
I think you got the wrong sender for your gauge. All the gas gauges that I've ever run used the 6 V sender deigned to operate that particular...
Chevy dist are the most desirable they can easily be turned down to fit 8BA flatheads.
I've found some but never lost any. I couldn't get the speedo cable to go back into my 56 3 spd OD trans that I had pulled out 6 months earlier....
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