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My brother had a 95 GT. Always liked the early Retro Mustang from that era. My neighbor picked up a nice v6 that a kid in the next town rolled...
My dad got rear ended in his 61 Fairlane 500 sedan in 1964. The rear frame on those cars is pretty weak which explains the door gap issue....
The 312 has larger diameter main journals so it has to be reworked to fit the 272/292 blocks
Drop the oil pan, force the crankshaft all the way back, then use a feeler gauge to measure clearance between the thrust bearing and the shaft....
Sounds like perhaps he isn’t running a voltage regulator in the system and voltage changes with rpm.
Lug nuts are bottoming before loading the wheel. I’m no Model A expert, but seem to remember a spacer was once available for switching from Model...
Rent a mobility scooter, or golf cart. Mobility scooters have free rein, but carts are limited to designated cart paths. Supposedly they...
Arriving at the campground Wednesday afternoon if the battery in the camper cooperates. Will be searching on Thursday and Friday, but have to be...
Yup. Looks like it’s gone. I sort of expected that would happen. Wish they had transferred the database and maintenance of it to some other...
You’re talking about cars from the fifties, sixties, and seventies, not today’s cars. I distinctly remember poking my fingers through the...
The EU requires that phone cords be standardized, and the old Apple Lightning cords didn’t meet the standards. The rest of the world typically...
Skirts extend lower on the piston barrel on the 289 pistons. They contact the rod shank if you try to turn the engine over if assembled with the...
In my case they were “sample” pistons from my Sealed Power sales rep. I replaced them with hypereutectic “Samples” from the Zollner Chief...
289 and 302 pistons have the same compression height/ pin location but the original 289 pistons had a longer skirt that interferes with the rod...
Correct. An engine with locked timing will fire well before TDC, so the starter can be fighting firing pressure. A proper distributor with...
I would ignore Mohawk. Their lifts are for professional service shops which can write of the cost of the lift as a legitimate business expense....
Quality was crap in the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties. The thirties and forties were worse yet.
Plain uncoated grey iron rings are suitable for lawnmower engines and that’s about it. The industry moved on from that technology years ago, and...
I watched it on Prime, which, I think is a free perc if you have Amazon Prime. I don’t know that for sure though, as my wife handles all that...
The Y block will have a front sump oil pan, the Chevy is a rear sump. That rear sump pan, and more compact overall package is what makes the...
68 was a transition year for the displacement increase, and also a strike year, so things are a little jumbled. The 1968 base 2 barrel Mustang v8...
A properly dropped axle is easier, probably safer, and looks more professional. It’s a one time cost.
This. Some diesel oils have what seems like a lot of zinc, but if you look closer, they also have a lot of phosphorus, which is a dispersant used...
Minor point, but for the sake of posterity, the 2 barrel was dropped from the 352 after 1963. 64- 66, the last year for car 352s, the 352 had a...
You guys have thin skins. Most people can’t identify a car, let alone an engine that’s likely older than they are. Why would you expect...
Probably Mt Lemon, although there are mountains on all four sides of Tucson. Mt Lemon is to our east, the Tortalinas to our North.
We bought a small, but not too small house almost six years outside of Tucson in a gated community. Lots of snowbirds here. The house was...
I seem to recall that those old aftermarket pistons didn’t have much in the way of skirt profile technology, so they were always run lose.
57 has been my favorite since they first came out and I was a seven year old. I’m on the lookout for a clip to backdate my 59 that has a 1960 clip.
Extended cabs, no matter if it’s behind the door, middle of the door, or the cowl, all look goofy, at least to me. Even my 36 pickup is tight,...
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