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Looks great. I'd love to find a set of those integral heat headers.
Has anyone installed Williams headers? I had an original pair of Fentons I was going to install but one of them is warped too far out of flat to...
Looks really nice, @Cosmo49 !
Thank you! It's been a labor of love for too many years... The first rig with my name on the title. Dad surprised me with it as a thank you for...
Well, I followed the links from his signature and they are not working. From there I went to his main site, and it's not active. When I did the...
Well, I'm glad. The not being alive thing has been going around lately. At least one guy that was posting early on in this thread, from what I...
That's me, Tony! Thanks. I'm glad to see you still around too. As I was reading through this thread again I found my self wondering how you're...
Here's my 55 that the 261 will go into. I'm running the stock SM420, with the stock 4.57 gears, and I will be putting a Brownie Junior overdrive...
I've searched the threads but most seem to be pretty old and the info is no longer good. I'm south west of Portland and I'm looking for...
Thanks to everyone that posted advice and even offers to help. I didn't see those posts until just now... I just got back into Ventura last night...
Thanks everyone for the condolences, sound advice, and good thoughts, and offers of help with replacing things. I really appreciate all of it....
So I was finally able to get into my property this past week. Like far too many people, I lost my home in Paradise, CA to the Camp Fire. It goes...
@Skankin' Rat Fink I would be interested if it doesn't have the broken thrust surface that mine has, and like Walt says, need the overall length....
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Well, the bidding was not what we'd hoped. I think it was probably one of two things. Either just bad timing, or it's not far enough along for...
Got the truck all put back together and ready to put up for sale... Much as it breaks my heart. :( So much potential. So many years of hunting...
So I fooled around with the truck a bit more this morning. I think I have it running about as good as I can get it for the moment. I need to get...
Here's some video... After I shot it I adjusted the timing so the pointer is at the leading edge of the window... Didn't make much difference but...
So, I never did hear back from Bubba. He must be real busy. Anyway, I've been busy so I hadn't had a chance to go out and work on the truck until...
@Paul Thank you! That's really good to know!
So a 56 distributor should be a drop in, gear and all?
That would be much That would be much simpler... So is it just the cam journals that are bigger in 56? For some reason I thought the drive gear...
Thanks @GMC BUBBA ! I returned your PM.
Yeah those were the days... ;) This has been a bit of a goat-rodeo for sure. When I first had it running, I had not messed with the dist or...
The gas in the oil, I'm pretty positive, had to do with the fact that I blocked off the the two vacuum ports on the fuel pump rather than making a...
That sounds reasonable. That was actually my original goal in all this. The main issue, and why I started chasing dwell, is that the motor is...
Yeah that's one thing I had seriously considered before. I realized this morning I must have been really tired when I posted before about the...
Ok, so I finally got a little time with the truck tonight about an hour before dark. I'm pretty frustrated. I can't get this thing to behave...
Sounds like a plan. Hey Ken! Ballast resistor is new, and in place. Initially I had jumpered across it because I thought it might be defective,...
So I guess I was under the wrong impression then. So in the pre-window distributors the only way to adjust the dwell would be to adjust the...
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