Ol' Blue's magnum swap
A lot has gone on since my last post. Got a few little updates. After I blew up my rear end another member here sold me a complete 8 and 3/4 out of a 67. it's got a slight whine to it and needs rebuilt but I've been running it as is for now.
I was still dealing with some rhythmic vibration for a little while too, come to find out the drive shaft I ordered wasn't balanced correctly. Had another shop in Houston balance it correctly whenever I had it modified yet again for the 8 3/4 yoke.
Still had a little bit more vibration left, that went away just about two months ago when I put all four new tires on it period turns out the new tires I had on before had set on the shelf for like six years and had flat spots that never actually went away.
When I first put this motor together I was running a 750 vacuum secondary Holley, I bought it used and had it rebuilt. Never did act completely right, and oozed gas from various places. Just this weekend I replaced it with a 750 Street demon, and got a new accelerator cable set up, and made my own throttle brackets. The throttle is a little jumpy right now but I expect it will smooth out as the cable ends wear down a little bit.
And I also got an update about my header versus power steering problem. I had been saving up for the borgeson power steering gearbox because it is a lot smaller, but then I come to find out that O'Reilly's sells remanufactured steering gear boxes that are almost the same size as the borgeson and for fraction of the price.if I had converted my original box to one of those, I would not have had to bash in those dd-9 headers. Oops.
A lot has gone on since my last post. Got a few little updates. After I blew up my rear end another member here sold me a complete 8 and 3/4 out of a 67. it's got a slight whine to it and needs rebuilt but I've been running it as is for now.
I was still dealing with some rhythmic vibration for a little while too, come to find out the drive shaft I ordered wasn't balanced correctly. Had another shop in Houston balance it correctly whenever I had it modified yet again for the 8 3/4 yoke.
Still had a little bit more vibration left, that went away just about two months ago when I put all four new tires on it period turns out the new tires I had on before had set on the shelf for like six years and had flat spots that never actually went away.
When I first put this motor together I was running a 750 vacuum secondary Holley, I bought it used and had it rebuilt. Never did act completely right, and oozed gas from various places. Just this weekend I replaced it with a 750 Street demon, and got a new accelerator cable set up, and made my own throttle brackets. The throttle is a little jumpy right now but I expect it will smooth out as the cable ends wear down a little bit.
And I also got an update about my header versus power steering problem. I had been saving up for the borgeson power steering gearbox because it is a lot smaller, but then I come to find out that O'Reilly's sells remanufactured steering gear boxes that are almost the same size as the borgeson and for fraction of the price.if I had converted my original box to one of those, I would not have had to bash in those dd-9 headers. Oops.