Recent content by slantsixdan

Both of the springs you need can be just generic springs. All the kickdown one has to do is keep the sliding lower rod pulled up to the top of its slot in the upper rod. All the heat riser spring has to do is prevent the odd rattle noise. They're not calibrated to a specific tension (tho if you...

Do like this. Dorman's stuff is an OK gamble for things where your life doesn't depend on it. Brake master cylinders are not in that category.

Yeah, a "weak bottom end" (not) despite "aerospace-grade metallurgy" (not).

Also, no, the Slant-6 was not slanted by 23°. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Uh-huh. And just wait'll you see the numbers you can generate if you combine the special 2" spacer with those "fire injectors" ("Run YOUR Car Without Spark Plugs!") JC Witless used to sell until Big Oil and the auto industries forced them off the market for obvious reasons. Don't try it til you...

Just found the boot-solution post I couldn't find the other day; it's here. Oh! Well, here y'go:

In what universe or timeline is $6,800 a good deal for a 225 + 727, even in perfect zero-miles condition with top-spec premium parts throughout? Looks to me like someone trying to get out of it what they spent on it – almost certainly much too much – which in turn was probably the seller...

Why wouldn't you?

As a showpiece: extra super cool number one. As a runner: I'd worry hard about hydrogen embrittlement of the cast iron, given the process involved in chrome-plating. And I'd expect the chrome to want to flake off the cast iron with thermal cycling. Also, that ain't a '64 motor (5 freeze plugs...

My switches were (and will be again, if all goes well) for the pre-'70 cars. The '70 cars have some one-year-only details to their switch. Most of them don't matter because they're hidden. The one you can see is the shape of the hazard flasher knob. If yours is a points-type show car and you...

Additional hinge info here.

'62 Lancer at the Wisconsin dock for the SS Badger (ferry across the lake): "Uhhh…pushbuttons…for the…transmission? We'll let you move it." Same '62 Lancer some hours later in Michigan: I hear it start up while I'm in line to get off the boat, and by the time I'm off, it's parked over yonder.

A red alternator warning decal doesn't come to mind. A yellow one does; it goes on the top surface of the rad support. Got a pic of the decal you're talking about? Or do you mean the red coffin-shaped tag that says "WARNING: DISCONNECT REGULATOR BEFORE TROUBLE SHOOTING"?

There's more to consider than just a hole and grommet – if there's no (or inadequate) baffle keeping liquid oil drops out of the PCV valve, they'll get sucked in and do crummy things (raise oil consumption, lower effective octane rating of your fuel, foul your spark plugs, gum up your intake...

Remember, the thermostat sets the minimum operating temperature, not the maximum. Yup.