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  1. Jim Kueneman

    Alignment specs for manual steering.

    We have a '63 Dart /6 and '66 Valiant V8. Where the manual says to put the Dart would be crazy by todays standards. It wants a negative caster! I crank the adjuster all the way to get the upper control arm balljoint to be as far back as possible (max positive caster) then I will back it off...
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    FBO plate over advancing

    I would just weld up the plate a bit as you know you don't need much. At the end of the day I personally don't think there will be much noticeable difference in a few degrees of initial timing as long as the all in is right. It will be much better than it was and with lighter springs it will...
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    1966/'69 A100 Twins Build

    Prestolite wipers. Same for A100 and early A Bodies. The only thing that goes bad is the cloth wire wrap disintegrates and shorts out and burns out the switch (or is the pivots are bound up and you keep running the motor and burning it up, never seen that in an Az car since the wipers almost...
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    1966/'69 A100 Twins Build

    Heat shrink tubing is great for restoring cables with failing sleeves. Blasted and lubed the shifter cable then wrapped it in heat shrink tubing to restore the sheathing. All the floor rubber seals for cable, rods and pipes restored and installed. All floor peddles and switches cleaned and...
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    1966/'69 A100 Twins Build

    I won’t get those 6 hours of my life back. Now i need to light the fire under my transmission guy so this shifter has something useful to do.
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    Any Pertronix experts here?

    I have run the factory coil and the ballast resistor on all my cars for years. The higher the resistance the lower the stresses on the Petronix module (to a point).
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    1966/'69 A100 Twins Build

    Doors Done…. Now just need to get a couple Trademan door panels made and snap them in. Next up reassemble the auto shifter and get the hole cut in the dash. Not many chrome parts to install!
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    Father-Son 1974 Duster Project

    That look so much better! Beautiful
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    1966/'69 A100 Twins Build

    Said I was going to do the doors. I lied. Ended up blasting and detailing a lot of interior parts. Epoxied stableized the defroster vents with PC7 epoxy as they get brittle and break on the ends. Now if ONLY there was an OEM harness available I’d be almost done. Some has to come back out to...
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    1966/'69 A100 Twins Build

    The QuietRide insulation kits, headliner, rear wall and side trim pieces are expensive but man does it make it not so tinny inside and it looks so much more sophisticated. Got the glass today so the doors are going together tomorrow.
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    1966/'69 A100 Twins Build

    Not sure he knew what it was either :). There are A100 with short wheel base and A108 vans with a long wheelbase.
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    AC Accumulator Drier - Just passing along an FYI

    That is not right for an OEM early A unfortunately. They lay on their side on top of the RH inner fender.
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