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Mine is from my old email, which is from a Siamese cat I inherited from a girl many years ago. The cat was named after her parents' boat, which...
Too bad Gimpy no longer has access to the GM inside info.
Sounds like the right decision, who knows if the prices will rise or fall in real dollars in the near future. It's better not leaving the selling...
Most cost effective way for this kind of project is to get a job with one of the companies that does this, preferably on the night shift. When...
Are you planning to use a manual transmission or automatic? If automatic, consider the 1964 429 as it's very similar to the '63 390 externally,...
I've had bad luck with new fuel pumps and on cutting them open found that instead of the bakelite disc valves pressed in the metal, there was...
Unless you have access to a lathe, then you can drill and tap the rod for a screw. But I did do this many years ago with only a hand drill, and...
If I'm really lucky and my son was around when I was working on something, I can ask him. He might have been only paying slight attention but...
Looks like a BC plate on the car behind, the buildings look like Victoria.... this thing was at Deuce Days? [IMG]
I don't know, but you have very nice toes, not all fungussy like mine.
A car guy is now a "they".:(
The turn signal indicator flasher unit is a really elegant device. Very reliable, and when one bulb burns out, it notifies the driver with its...
Impressive! And back then transaxles were probably "a dime a dozen" so to speak, in the event of failure.
Here's a few books: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
What did you use for a transaxle?
Ha ha! Was it Henry Ford that said, "History is bunk"? Philosophy is quite variable to me. Sometimes I'll concentrate really hard to understand...
I started to put one of these engines in a '69 Corolla years ago before concluding the weight on those tiny front end parts would be a really bad...
Huh? I looked it up, and only got lots of links to somebody called that involved with "fur affinity" which sounds fun, but not very car related.
...or an unsophisticated naif.
The interesting thing about that scam site is that it has thousands of items, with images too. I assume AI was used to copy the real site complete...
. It would be funny to mix them up in a state of excitement! Okay, actually not funny.:eek:
In my experience stale gas attacks steel, brass and (pot metal) in fuel systems, but not aluminum, surprisingly.
Well that lends a lot of credibility to the story.
Don't the water pumps have at least core (rebuild) value? And exhaust manifolds must have some demand.
That would seem to be a sensible item for them to market.
The problem with old cars and small engines in general is that they don't have sealed fuel systems like modern cars. So as temperatures go up and...
But then there is extra opportunity for crank snouts to get broken etc. as the blocks are handled as roughly as airport luggage.
As in 112 pounds? (Our European comrades' suspicion that we have weird measurements over here will be confirmed).
Why not phone up the scrap yard he will be using and ask what they pay for scrap cast iron engine blocks?
I would imagine those are too hard to sharpen with files. In my machinist apprenticeship I sharpened lots of various cutters using a diamond wheel...
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