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I have a 79 trans am with rear disc brakes. I replaced the back calipers to get the e brake working. I decided the system was due to be...
I went with 2001 blazer cables on my 79 trans am for rear disc brakes. I was able to get parking brake housings for the left and right side. the...
I’m going to take it to the machine shop tomorrow. To have it cleaned. I’ll talk with him about the condition it’s in and have him check the bore...
I set this to 4” on this bore gauge. Most of the time I check it. The thrust angles on each cylinder go to the 5 mark on the left side of that...
So, I started this mess with a broken ring. I found 2 more, which was fine. I think they broke coming out. I picked up some Fowler micrometers...
I did do that to an engine a few years ago. I put new lifters in an old cam. Thinking the new lifters would mate to it but keep the round curve....
I can’t go all out on it. It’s basically going to stay stock. I just need to get some life out of it. It has headers and they are coming off and...
I numbered everything and kept it in order with one of those organizers. All the pushrods, lifters, and rocker arms will go back where they went
After buying the eBay set of standard rings , I’ve decided to just ball hone it like you said. im going to get a lisle ridge reamer, as the...
Can you tell me more about the center one that will make the cylinder round. I’m guessing I need that one.
I went ahead and bought the rings off eBay. I’ll cut the ridge down with the Autozone rental tool and hone it with a new 180 stone
Exactly. I won’t put 20k on this truck. Probably not even 1k in the next few years I will use a stone hone as that cuts the cylinder straight...
What I was thinking was, if these new rings are really soft. would they not cut to shape in the egg shape. I saw they like a 280 hone with 400...
I have an original engine, never been messed with, in a 78 k5 blazer. That sat for 20 years. It has kind of low oil pressure and had 130...
Un Hooking the vacuum advance made the stumble in that video, a lot less. I retested the advance canister with a better seal and the diaphragm is...
[MEDIA] Here’s a video of it.
I’ve got a lot of stuff to check and do now based on all this info The reason I took the double 2 off is because the front carburetor has a...
I found a vacuum leak in the advance. I plugged it off for now so I’m getting no vacuum assisted advance or I think I did. Might have been the...
62 jet Pink cam Bleeds clear Throttle shaft open cover half the cam. Is this normal. Seems fine but I don’t know. This is my first Holley There...
Distributor cam block Holley part number
The dwell setting. Confirmed it’s 15° set at .017 It is supposed to be 32° The distributor cam block is slightly worn out I think. The most I...
Could an intake leak cause this sort of problem?
Some of it was caused by the secondaries being cracked open too much allowing too much extra air in. I threw a rag on top of the sencondaries and...
The idle was adjusted to 21” its the highest I could get. The idle is 700 The accelerator arm is .015....it was adjusted last night....
318 mopar Streetmaster intake. Carb space Blaster 2 coil with new ballast resistor Timing set 12° initial Vacuum is 21” at idle Holley 600 4160...
[IMG]- Let the car sit for 7 years. The gas was drained and this residue and very caked on gas was the result. So far. Acetone has not touched...
i would like to use some sort of resistors to help heat the air in the rear defroster......have the air blowing across the resistors just to give...
the mopar version from the early 60's to the early 70's was a blower motor as you described. The blower mounted to the right speaker hole and the...
im a guessing here that if it doesnt have the id tag you cant really tell. im trying to buy a somewhat matching set or rochester small base carbs....
carburetor #7008597........can that number be possible.
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