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I realize some think some of the stuff I tell about my life is BS. That said, I guess some people’s lives were so boring and mundane they couldn’t imagine anything else. Here’s another part of my past. I was Forman on a Ranch that my first Wife’s family owned. I rode horses and wore a 6 gun...

So familiar. One day Dad says “come on, I need your help” Short of it was this. We stopped at a machine supply and he bought 6 5 gallon buckets of 90wt oil. It was snowing and I was wondering what the hell? We pulled up to a property with an old road grader and he says “Time to find the drive...

Oh, so you are kind of new at it then.:D I started driving heavy equipment real early as we had 4x4’s, wheeled tractors, caterpillars and a road grader. We had property in the Sierras north of Tahoe, and I was the oldest, so my Dad involved me in everything. I know some of my life happenings...

All done, 40 degree AC and killer heat full climate control.

I learned how to back trailers even just with mirrors by 10 years old, so it’s funny watching people that can’t try over and over without learning anything from the last fail. They just keep doing the same thing over and over and over. I watch those. Mostly just to see how bad some of them...

Sitting out front with my after breakfast coffee watching the neighbor down the street make dozens of tries at backing a trailer into his driveway. Cars backed up waiting for him to get out of the way. Could end up being his fourth DUI if the right car comes along. Jees, I need to go find...

I just recently finished a Classic Auto Air system, and it didn’t come with a glovebox replacement at all. I just needed to trim about 1.5 inches off the lower rear corner of my original plastic box to clear the new under dash unit. The hole gave a place to put the ecu.

They normally use 2 part epoxy to seal those plugs. Kind of a common problem really.

So here’s where I stand on it after carefully reviewing your posts and pictures. For one, I don’t have a shop or even a garage to put the car and apparent large load of parts. Also I don’t feel I want to deal with, or be responsible for an engine needing a blower, aftermarket fuel system and...

All clear now. Just so you know, I would pretty much have to have the car and related parts up here. But I will think about it. Do you know what’s keeping it from running? Oh, I went back to your sale post. “Some assembly required” lol. Yea, that would have to be up here.

Kind of a can of worms question, because there’s so many varied opinions. I have to agree with the Lucas if you want a good quality product. For what it’s worth, when I ran older manual transmissions I would customize the fluid mix depending on how the trans reacted. Some work great with 85/90...

What kind of work do you need done? I’m in Prescott Valley and do Mopar and others.

A spear gun is legal to carry in Mexico.

I also made my own, but have a relay for each filament. (4 relays) If one relay feeds both low beams and one feeds both hi beams, then the loss of one relay takes out both lights. Didn’t like that idea much. Also all headlights are now 10 ga. wire including the grounds.

So pour a little fuel down it’s throat and see if it fires off. Nothing about the alternator is going to keep it from running except a dead short, and you would know it if that was the case. You would have an electrical fire.

Believe it or not the Edelbrock carbs are more prone to heat soak because of where the bowls are.

Ok, I see both addresses are apparently the ligit sites for Speedmaster. So Summit Racing is selling Chinese rip offs of a aftermarket parts manufacturer/seller in the US and putting the name of the real company on their parts. Then the real guy is getting support calls about the counterfeit...

It’s common to remove the ONE heavy spring and replace it with the light spring. This brings in the total (without vacuum) to all in about 2,500 rpm or so.

I just looked up both domain registration records and they are different. Speedmaster79.com is registered out of Tempe Arizona. Speedmaster.com is registered out of Germany.

In upper rpms the mechanical advance is probably maxed out, so any further spring changes will likely make zero difference. Try the 16 position of your advance plate. 38 total seems a bit too much anyway. Or, just pull the base timing back a couple of degrees. That will bring your total down as...

This is not Speedmaster. It’s Speedmaster79, but now I see why some think it is. The (79) makes all the difference here.

Ah, so you know how it actually goes.

Warning about Speedmaster79, sold by Summit Racing.(and probably others) This guy seems to be mostly Ford, but I don’t think it matters. What I think really matters is that Summit Racing sells it. A Chinese rip off with the actual US builders name on it.

I totally agree, as I was thinking Gorilla tape, but I don’t have any at the moment. I do know I’m not pulling it back out again. :-)

All buttoned up after the removal of the stereo, ashtray assembly, heater controls and glove box. I probably wouldn’t have had to remove all this, but I had some electrical sketchies that I wanted to deal with while I was in there anyway. The Classic Auto Air instructions said to remove the...

If you ever worked in a trans shop you would see that almost every day. Front seal can go bad, or even pop out. Pump gasket can leak. Pump bushing can go, causing the seal to leak. A cracked converter snout can make it where you need a new pump, gears, bushing, seal and converter. Not meant to...

If the woodruff key is there and in good condition, I wouldn’t worry about it since you have a good torque on it. I might be tempted to do a little blue loctite on the bolt threads. Don’t over torque it. Too risky.

Back to drivability. One of my best drivability cars was a lincoln mark 4. Everything worked, it rode fantastic, was extremely comfortable and was a power house if needed. It wasn’t fun, but it was reliable and comfortable. One of the most fun cars was a 70 Roadrunner with a built 440 and a...

To me, good drivability is how the car does what you want and when you want. It should just flow smoothly from the moment you turn the key to braking to park. No matter how much power it has. I have driven some pretty fast street cars that were generally horrible in the drivability aspect, but...

I will likely put together a video for YouTube with more detail.