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I´ve checked the manual. " Install the forward bolt from the front side of the front crossmember with sufficient shims between the crossmember and...
I need to check the shop manual first.
Never had that pleasure :o but that nut/bolt isn´t supposed to move. It should be fixed while on the road. As I remember there should be some...
Went there one evening in august, got a great reception and a fair deal on some stuff I needed.
Merry Christmas
I´ll be there !!! First time, high expectations.
Welcome ! A or EPA-traktor is a good start, it worked for you !
Welcome from northern Sweden. COOL car !
I´m planning a similar project myself, I like the expression "reacher".
Mine is the Belgian comic character Gaston. Gets his pay from an office, works on his inventions.
That oldsmobile has potentional, love the look.
I´m above the Arctic circle and could use some warm weather, so, Good Luck !
Hi to you too. So cool to see your 1:1 cars ;)
Like it !!
I would like to recommend "The great FE intake comparo" by Jay Brown. http://fepower.net/GFEIC.html He has a very scientific approach by using...
Hejsan Bill ! Cool story, being brought up on Volvo and SAAB myself but always had a love for American cars.
Welcome! That car looks so much like an European Opel Rekord of the same age. There were also a version called Diplomat that had the 283 cu. in. V8 .
If memory serves me correctly, the nuts are integrated with the washers. You unscrew the bolt a couple of turns and then hit the head of the bolt...
What year van are you talking about ? -96 and newer have frame but earlier, like those late eighties G20 that where so popular here in Sweden are...
Here´s mine. Built at Mahwah, sold new in Sweden, completle restored by me and also a little modified with Lincoln disc brakes and I´m right now...
Have you removed the selector shaft ? I once did on a PG and got it all wrong when I reinstalled it. You wrote that it acted as in Neutral when...
The pebbling makes it look like cast iron. If it was fatigue the surface would typically be 2/3 clean and 1/3 rough.
Cool ! Welcome from northern Sweden !
Hmm... Take a look at the front suspension. Does it look like an -61 or the -63/-64 ? It´s a long shot but there was a black on red -61 over...
OK. I see it now.
Looks like this is the intake manifold: http://mustangtek.com/Intake/D1AE-9425-BA.html The reliefs are coveredby the carb gasket, so... Ford used...
SpdJnky & FalconGeorge: I've got Jay Brown's Intake Comparo Book & really like the detail he put in. He sliced & diced the Dyno info in many...
WOW ! It´s an honour. I´ve enjoyed your articles in Swedish car magazine´s since the seventies (that´s how I learned to read). Wasn´t that rod as...
There´s something familiar about that yellow coupe. Was it built in Sweden or at least has it been around over here ? Anyways, I really enjoy this...
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