Recent content by slantsixdan

I don't have photos or diagrams that will help. If I were in Houston, I'd be happy to head over and go "This one goes here, that one gets clipped onto here, routed around there, and connects there and there" etc. Still, it's not a terribly complex harness; even with the A/C there aren't a whole...

Australia has an extremely strict, stringently-enforced ban on the import of asbestos – including in car parts. Brake pads/shoes, clutch discs, exhaust gaskets, etc.; if they contain asbestos (or the inspector finds they're likely to contain asbestos) they have to be changed to non-asbestos...

That's what cinderblocks and loaded toolboxes are for: to "prop down" the brake pedal! »bows, doffs cap, does a little soft-shoe«

Neat stuff fer sher, but not as claimed; see here.

…and severely incomplete, per Kevin McCabe: "About Chrysler "Assembly Manuals" from Faxon: that's a term used by other automakers, Chrysler called them Graphics Books. That's number one. Second, in speaking of JUST car assembly, there are at least four graphics books. The chassis graphics...

It isn't. A-body Mopars are decades past their intended lifespan; when you drive an old car, you will find yourself replacing parts most people never have to think about. Blower switches are on that list. If you're melting them repeatedly, your blower motor/circuit is drawing excessive current...

Exact displacement wasn't dictated. Performance characteristics and approximate displacement range were; the harder points of the design brief were manufacturability, cost-effective manufacturability, packaging constraints (must fit XYZ vehicles), compatibility constraints (must work with XYZ...

Pretty good in the protected environment of a closed taillight, but earlier in this thread I linked to the exterior version. No. Goes on a bit gloopy.

At the centre "heel" of the reflector, surrounding the terminals (outside) and filament capsule (inside). That's because when the glass reflector is being made, the glass sticks a bit to the stamper tool and when it retracts, it pulls the glass out of the intended shape. If that area were...

There are several ways, but let's try hitting two crawdads with one chopstick (engine size, whether or not it's potentially original to the car): what are the casting numbers on the manifold side of the block?

That's a '63 with home-made move of the controls up to the '64 location. All '63 A-bodies had that crappy little plastic box carelessly tossed under the dash, like "Awcrap, the heater controls! We forgot the heater controls! Where'll we put 'em; this car has to be DONE!".

Now we're talking turn signals, not headlamps – and one-touch three-flash was a thing before the current craziness in vehicle electrical architecture. Headlight: never. Daytime running light: sometimes. And this, too, is easy without "operate the switch to send an encoded message to beg the...

If only there were some kind of…like…a way how to build a circuit for park-tail-headlights on a car which (stay with me, this gets complex) doesn't involve voltage dividers or CAN or LIN buses. Like (just blue-sky spitballing here) maybe have a switch configured to make/break more than one...

It is very much worth your while to get the good gaskets for the manifolds-to-head, intake-to-exhaust, and exhaust-to-headpipe junctions. Find hardware and mounting-technique info here and here.

Hey, neat, where'd that '62 Lancer hoodbadge come from? Those get all pitted up from road rocks. Emblemagic did the '61, and it'll fit in a '62, but it's a different design.