wrenching on your car in crappy weather

krazykuda said

I drove a 68 Barracuda for 7 years everyday in Michigan weather. Got it from my brother with 200,000 on it, finally had to retire it after it hit 500,000 miles. The body had finally started going to bad...

However with those narrow stock tires, and a 3.23 sure grip, I had no trouble getting through snow. Better than my wife's Neon...

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WHOA! NICE!

doogievlg said

Give me the cold over hot when it comes to turning wrenches. Coveralls good gloves and hat and you wolnt hear me complain. Until it goes below -5...then I wolnt complain ill just stay inside:)

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IDK, the extremes suck no matter how you put it. On the flip side to my cold nightmare story, once again I'm working on my '73-4spd Cuda but this time, OH dear Lord, the temp was high. Not that 95 or so plus is the worst temp I ever experienced in my life, it was just the approx. 20* jump from the prior week that made the day so murderous!

Once again, my daily driver gave me trouble. By this time however, the Cuda was a nice street stripper car. My Magnum (79) gave up. The engine just lost oil pressure and, well, never mind.........

All day, with blinding sweat dripping like someone had a hose over my head (And boy I wish that were the case....) I swapped out the cam, intake, carb and installed the MoPar head shims under the heads to drop that wacky ratio down to puke pump swill 87 and center section of the rear from 4.10's to 3.23's.

It was a Torker II 340 and a 750 and the purple 292/.509. Fun streetcar in the early 90's. Not to friendly on gas. Which was a whooping $1.35 for 93. I didn't complain then. But traveling 25 miles one way to work everyday wasn't what I'd call fun in at least one rush hour traffic run.

The 625 Carter on a LD-340 with a small Crane (216-228 @ .050) helped a lot along with the 3.23's.