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A warning light is like being told you have a disease as you reach the point to need surgery. A gauge spots abnormalities before they become a bigger issue.

This cracked me up. I don’t care about soccer in the least but I’d watch a match on this field.

I love to patronize small businesses. It sounds touchy-feely but I feel better knowing that my money is helping a small business owner succeed. Sometimes though, they let you down because they don't have the manpower to meet the demands.

An A body with 11" front discs and 10" rear drums is a damn good setup. I have a 67 Dart and 72 Duster with this setup and the braking is excellent.

Spring Fling 2022: This car had block off plastic plates where the heater and radio would have been.

Another candidate for the IGNORE list since I refuse to tolerate people of a certain type.

No offense meant for the following: I love these threads. They make me smile when someone asks a question that has them confused and it is a situation that others have seen and dealt with many years ago. Yeah that valve is similar to what you see on your wheels. They are Schrader valves that...

Believe what you want. I think that it is quite possible that Government picks winners and losers in business. Take a look at what happened in 2020-2022 if you need 100 examples. Small businesses get shut down while large ($$$ donor) corporations were allowed to stay open?

That article is crap. They mention the use of a Dart grille when it is clearly a modified Shark Tooth grille... "Chrysler decided to set the Mexican Super Bee apart from the Duster by using the front grille of the U.S.-spec Demon. The Valiant Super Bee was further updated in 1972 and 1973, to...

I don't know how anyone could miss the point. If a car was built with equipment that YOU defeated or removed, you could be subject to a citation for that. If the car had the equipment but it was just not working, that is often just a "fix-it" ticket that requires repair but the fine is much lower.

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...