Recent content by 19DART66

A few pic's she took while loading it up on trailer. My son wants to put the engine together and stuff the engine and trans back in, and clean it up enough to start driving it. Probably put headers and dual exhaust, Got a full set of Weld rodlite wheels to put on it, a shift kit in the trans...

My son bought this car on Monday and I drove a little over 2 hours to pick the car up. The Dart has the usual dings and chips you would find in a 51 year old car. Rust for a car that has been in the north east its entire life is minimal, drivers side floor has a few small holes and a little...

And the win goes to Dale Davies, Thank you! You wouldn't believe how many people will argue that the gr-8 shear strength is greater because the bolt is stronger.

Now my question is which bolts have the higher shear strength, a gr-2, gr-5 or gr-8? On the subject of studs and nuts, the GM LS engines and the Ford Mod engines both use studs and they are both having the same cast iron exhaust manifold attachment breakage problems as the new Hemi that uses...

So now a hypothetical scenario, The manufacturer decides to put the manifolds on with 3/8 grade 8 bolts now, to cure the problem of 5/16 low grade bolt snapping. The 3/8 bolt cost more but is much stronger, so now that bolt pulls the threads out of the aluminum head instead of breaking. How much...

As much as a lot of us think engineers are a bunch of half wits for the way they engineer these cars, most of them do know their perspective jobs. The engineer for that bolt most likely spec a lower grade bolt just for that reason. I have changed my perspective on engineers after my son...

Slow down the rate of hit on your ClutchTamer. Keep tightening up the the big knob until you only get about a 1000 to 1200 RPM drop at the hit (just at the point the Clutch starts to grab till it is fully engaged) When you get it right the car should knock at least 5 tenths if not more off your...

Guys you have to put everything into perspective, there are three different alloys here with three different expansion rates, an aluminum head, cast iron exhaust manifold, and a steel bolt. Something has to give, most times it is the steel bolt that is the weak link( which is believe it or not...

Which Dominator(4500) carb and how new is it? A lot of the newer Dominators have air valves in them around the center were the air cleaner stud is. The valve could be open to far letting too much air to bleed through, in other words a large vacuum leak. On my older Dominator, I had to drill and...

Super Cuda, That would tell me that the slip yoke in the end of the trans was sticking out about 3 inches on the original 7 1/4 set up

RRR is right, you are going to have to shorten the drive shaft. 7 1/4 10.09 inches from center of ring gear to end of yoke 8 3/4 12.35 inches, that is a 2.26 inches difference in length. So measure the drive shaft that is in the car now and either take 2 to 2 1/4 inches off, with 3/4 to an inch...

2022 Ram 1500 Longhorn 4x4, year round daily driver and tow vehicle and most comfortable 2012 Challenger R/T Classic, summer fair weather daily driver 1966 Dart, fun car, race car, cruise car 1980 CBX Honda, what I ride just for the odd looks it gets when people see those 6 pipes hanging off the...

QuickTime use to make the right depth bells for the small block Mopars for the Ford and Chevy input lengths for the Tremec trans. but not any more. I do not think they ever made them for the Gen III Hemis but not sure. For reference the small block Chevy bell for the TKX is 6.29" deep, and...

Which TKX trans did you purchase? If you purchased the the Ford version, it has a 7.21" input shaft length. The GM one has a 6.71" input shaft length. this is the only two transmissions they make, no Mopar lengths. 833 trans have a 8.5" input shaft length, with a 7.3 bellhousing depth both...

in your first post you mentioned that you put in a dual diaphragm clutch in the car. Did you mean a dual disk diaphragm clutch? If so check the departure on the second clutch disk(closes to the trans). On sum of these dual disk clutches the disk will hang on the input shaft and keep spinning...