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I know that these cars came with pretty basic instrumentation but unless you're running a fairly stock engine, I wouldn't feel comfortable not knowing about the oil pressure. All of the A and B body cars I've owned had temperature and alternator gauges anyway.

Further.... I have boxes of front end parts from numerous incomplete front end rebuild kits. I've taken in stashes of parts from several people. Sometimes a man needs only a few parts from a kit but it was cheaper to buy the whole thing. In my stash, there are several sets of strut rod bushings...

Adjustable strut rods… You just mentioned the possibility of standard strut rod bushings varying in thickness and then you mention adjustable strut rods? You do understand that the adjustables have a much greater likelihood of introducing bind to the lower control arm bushing (due to improper...

Poly is fine at the strut rods. I've used it several times with no ill effects. I got a Poly set from PST. Yeah, you do need to make sure that they are not thicker than the rubber bushings are. Rubber does compress more so make note of the thickness as it is when compressed, maybe by pressing...

Okay, John....I have questions. What are these? I think ma Mopar should have kept them open like that to allow fresh air to the carburetor AND to clean out the leaves and debris that seems to collect there. Secondly, what are those things on the valve covers? I don't see a distributor at...

Yet you live in Arizona. Is anyone actually surprised to find the weather HOT in Arizona?

I do love the vertical smile. That is basic biology at play. The vertical videos are yet another example of lazy efforts by people with limited standards. The only times that the vertical/portrait aspect ratio looks right is for photographs of people standing, skyscrapers, rocket launches...

Winter sucks ***. The cold, the short daylight hours, the overcast skies, the rain or snow....It all sucks. In the Summer, you have ALL day to do things. Sure, the heat can be taxing but you can take breaks from it. From inside the house, you can look through the windows and see sunny skies, a...

I absolutely HATE Vertical videos. They look horrible and show what a clueless dipshit the creator is.

I did rebuild the Holley from the car and while it idled fine, it sputters a bit under a load. No flooding. I changed the primary metering block, the only one it had. It runs a bit better but still not perfect. Maybe there is something embedded in a passage or something. I did soak it in Chemdip...

Well, it seems to be fixed. That fuel pressure reading is a moving target.

Another kit had a needle and seat with the seal in it. This one has a wider foot to it. Here goes….

Uhhh…. It took about a minute to pull the seat out and it HAS the o-ring. Don’t you hate when you think you found the problem but you didn’t?

I just found the first one that I took out. I see my mistake. This seal is flush with the body of the cylinder. It probably wasn’t sealing. Then I put in one with NO seal/o-ring, making it worse. I’m going in for the night. I’ll get back to this tomorrow. Thanks!

I looked through the stash. Years ago, I bought out the car stuff owned by an old timer. In with it all, he had some Holley parts. Here are some needle valves I just saw. Those have seals/o-rings. New ones still in in the plastic don’t. I found these. Remember 35 mm film...

Yeah I know… you read the headline and think Hey….just adjust the float level! I have. It isn’t so simple. I’m tinkering with this car… It is a fairly mild 360 with a MP 280-474 cam, Weiand intake, cast iron manifolds and a Holley 600. The 600 is fine. I have a Holley 750 I got from a friend...

The nearby dump has a recycling facility where people can take stuff that others “recycle”. Sometimes it is spray paint, bug killer or cleaners. Sometimes it is oil still in unopened containers. There will be some that suggest that you don’t use old oil but my thought is… for a stock vintage...

Of all the engines that I have torn down to rebuild, very few had cam bearings worn much. The ones above didn't wear, they rotted from contamination. Bearings don't flake and chip apart from wear.

I bought the lift in 2015. I built the shop in 2006 with the intention of installing a car lift. I am still fully capable of "flat back" work but this is so much better. I lose perspective of what is the left and what is the right when I'm laying down. Standing while working is a lot easier.

I would be doing it standing up. Cam bearings don't see reciprocating wear, they see rotational. It has been my experience that crank bearings see far more wear than cam bearings. When I sell something and I want top dollar, I do NOT want it coming back to haunt me. I make the car as...

I don't think that anyone is criticizing the firefighters directly. As usual, it is the management that is to blame. Think about it...The rank and file people are the ones that do the work, it is the "representation" that is hard to trust because it often seems like they have an agenda. Unions...

Who has done this? I've replaced rod bearings with engines still in cars but I don't think that I've replaced a full set of main bearings before. Rods are easy, pushing the rod UP a slight amount allows adequate clearance to slip the top shell out. The mains though...it isn't as if you can pull...

The heads on this engine didn’t have the casting numbers visible. It has been awhile since I’ve paid attention to casting numbers on heads so i am out of practice. I looked at another set of heads I had in the shed. FABO member @mopowers Made me a deal on them a couple of years back They have...

Stupid broads. If you’re looking at them too much, they complain. If you pay them no attention they complain or think you’re gay. Here is an indisputable truth: The likelihood of them being offended is directly proportional to how attractive the man is. Old, ugly or short? Harassment. Good...

Uhhhh…. I pulled the spark plugs and squirted oil in each cylinder. With an old torque wrench, I gave it a spin and got a geyser out of #6. Then I spun some more… The spark plugs being at an angle helped me see where the water came from. Both # 5 and 6 had water. The intake ports...

Nobody is going to beat you up for not knowing everything.

I built mine in 2006. Things may have changed since then but it sure is rare to see the government DROP any sort of fee.

I'm out in Granite Bay. I had no restrictions but the local fire department required a "Fire Impact fee" of 50 cents per square foot of the shop. $804 for that...I have yet to see a benefit from that expense.

The guy thought he blew a head gasket. I will pull the heads and get a look sometime later. This one found me when I wasn’t looking.

The intake is off. I’m building the drama here…. I have a car that I am undecided on the exact approach that I want to take with it. It is a 70 Charger with a 383 that I rebuilt. I’d like to use an automatic overdrive to make road trips more fun. I could just go with a Silver Sport GM based...