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I'll get some pictures up as soon as I can like I said I didn't do the setup for the Hemi I had someone do it for me,theres not much to look at...
Project is on hold for a while I had some medical issues first the prostate cancer scare,then crushed my hand at work,so haven't been able to work...
I drove a tow truck for about 12 years,I never got any tip's, but once an old lady could'nt get her ignition key to turn,she had turned the...
A few years ago,a black guy that was from the west side of Chicago they called him Country,from what I was told by some of the guys that were...
One of the $100,000.00 a year rocket scientist, that is in fleet management with the City of Chicago, who has the power to buy equipment,well he...
In 69 -70 I worked in a gas station bulk oil was 39 cents a quart that was a union 76 station
If your running roller rocker"s and lifters or solid lifters you might want to put oil restrictor in it you dont need all that oil up top,and a...
Most of the cars that impressed me growing up were guys in my neighborhood,but big named cars were Stone Woods & Cook,Don Garlits swamp rat,Chris...
Saturday I was out at White's Pit stop in Schererville In. I got there too early,well I was way too early,I got there at 8:30 and figured I'll go...
have you used another pressure guage just to be sure on your readings,and have you checked the mains
the tag on the compressor pump is R-15A 87G hope this helps
I'll look today I have the original tag on mine,I just recently replaced the motor on it,com ed lost a leg of power and the compressor was running...
I'm helping out a friend,He's putting a SBC about 400hp in place of the 283 that's in it, it has a 4speed with the cast iron bell housing do you...
the compressor pump looks like mine,I have a older champion its like 30 to 40 years old
my brother and I use to go to a shop in Bridgeport on 35th and Halsted called Orosco hobby shop I was into model car's and he had a dozen or so...
First thing I would do is set the intake on to the motor and check the alignment of the intake verses the heads and block,dry fit the gaskets to...
I guess I went a little over budget,but I had bought a manual bead breaker from northern tool,but after doing a few tires it bent,plus I got tired...
Had one old guy telling me he painted his car with a pump type bug sprayer??
what I've seen done was,1/2 steel tubing bent to match the radius of the opening,then it was cut down the center of the outter side of the...
Caster is not a tire wearing angle,it would cause more of a pulling problem I would think,but a 10 year old tire flat spots? ply seperation? and...
living in chicago your neighbors are closer than you might think,just 3 ft away an average lot is 25 ft wide,but my neighbors are cool with...
54 Studebaker my dad had parked in the garage,my brother and I would be working on my gocart in the garage,and my brother found a key in the glove...
When I was a kid(in the 60's) my dad and I would go down there to get parts for his 57 Buick roadmaster,they had they had a 409 a small block...
Back in tha 70's there was quite a few 55 that raced at a track called Raceway park in Blue island Ilinois a lot of them were 4 door's a friend...
When AG and more AG came out we were all at the drive in's watching them,good or bad it was still entertaining,but like all movies that are...
The reason I ask is that years ago the older type HEI distributors that had the module inside of it,what use to happen to them is the advance...
Don't that distributor have a pole piece in side of it .,
take a can of carb cleaner put the little tube on the nozzle,spray around the carb and intake manafold,or you can use water too,but carb cleaner...
In Illinois you have to run both plates! the wife got a ticket with her 85 monte carlo SS and whats funny there is no plate bracket on the front...
It sounds like a timing chain !
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