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    Can I get some opinions from those who know?

    I am considering getting rid of the Death mobile (68 dodge dart 280 4 door) to clean out the garage and let me move on with some other projects. I would love to either trade it for a truck, some wood working tools or sell her for cash. My problem is, I am not entirely sure what value I...
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    S.O.S. I need some help here....

    so heres my situation. i got the dart 98% of the way back together, missing only putting the hood and front bumper on and adjusting the body panels correctly. am trying to bring the engine back to life, but I have to get the distributor positioned correctly. how do I do this all by...
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    mechanical water temp guage

    first off, I am not sure which forum this should be in so i went general, if a moderator wishes it somewhere else please move the thread. ok.... I bought a 3 guage set which inludes a water temp guage, voltmeter, and oil pressure guage the water temp guage gas the sensor connected to it...
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    steering wheel

    am looking for a steering wheel for the smaller 67 - 69 steering column after having switched to manual steering i have a feeling my baby grant wheel will no longer perform the job as well. not looking to spend a fortune though.
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    power steering gear box

    I want to buy a power steering gear box, either new, rebuilt or in good serviceable condition. does anyone know where I can find one?
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    flaming river steering install...

    am taking the power steering out of my dart, installing a flaming river manual box with adapter my brother bought for his charger, he is deciding to stay with power though. so the deal is, I buy a new power boc for him, I get the manual box with adapter. I already got my end of the deal...
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    The Death Mobile has won...

    There is a new car club here in Northwest Arkansas called Nash Back at Ya. They are not a make specific car club, though they pay homage to the Nash Metropolitan in there name, a quaint little car from the 60's if memory serves. They held a cruise in at Back Yard Burgers in Rogers, AR this...
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    Westward bound

    Our journey began at 730 am eastern time, heading out of town back to northwest arkansas in all its glory... in the little burg of Lewisburg, PA on our way to the interstate I pull to a gentle stop at a red light, and what eases up beside my 68 dart? a 70 something 4 door Valiant, red, vinyl...
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    oil level

    this may be a basic question but... what are the negative effects of having too much oil in your engine?
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    Relocation, once again, this time, more interesting...

    Yes, just last summer I moved from Northwest Arkansas to lovely Central Pennsylvania. Due to certain inescapable events my family members have decided we are moving back. Next month. My Dart turns 40 in mid February, I took her on a trailer for the move here to PA. I will be driving her...
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    Which size exhaust to go with?

    All headers collect into a 3 inch tube right? so anything else uses a reducer off the get go, no problem. will a 3 inch exhaust system from header to the tail pipe fit under an a body without any problems? specifically I am looking for my 68 dart. furthermore, with my 360 engine, do...
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    Dilemma: Which air cleaner?

    I got a 'new' air cleaner today. its in reallly really good shape. compared to the prices on flea bay for this same air cleaner, I got it for a steal. it fits on top of the engine, not exactly the way I thought it would what with the oil breather cap and radiator hoses and what not but it is...
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    I got a new car!! *happy dance*

    its not an a body, but it is a mopar. 2002 Dodge neon SXT I always wanted a neon sorry for the bad pics, my camera is a bit on the broken side and it took awhile to get the car home... I like it alot, all told, warranty and all I got it fir a little over $7k. has a biscuit more...
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    I got questions, anyone have answers?

    Question number one: The mechanics who worked on my car said I have my front spindles on backwards. they are the disc brake spindles off a 74 dart. are the calipers supposed to be in the front or the back? is this different than if they were 68 dart disc spindles? I cannot mount my...
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    Shorty Hedman Headers

    I have hedman headers on my 68 Dart at the moment, of the kind that most people like, the ones that have the steering linkage running through the middle of one side and all the fun stuff. I need to replace them because they have a long history of smacking the roadway due to hanging down to...
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    Parking / Emergency Brake cables

    Having moved recently to PA I am on the cusp of having my 68 Dart registered and sent through the rigorous vehicle inspection process. The E brake / parking brake is the only thing left that I think will give me a failure, it is not totally shot mind you, but it aint that great either. The...
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    Relocation

    I packed the truck up with all my worldly posessions, drove the car up the ramps to the trailor and secured her into her little nest, and proceeded over a thousand miles to my new home in central Pennsylvania. The truck had no cruise control, and I would have to say that that was the only...
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    Just a little bit o' fun

    was spending some time at some friends house last night and did not leave til around 11pm. On my way home I neared the party street of town, that which leads to the University and has more bars than any other type of business establishment. I decided to make a cruise up and down before returning...
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    what makes 100%?

    From a strictly mathematical viewpoint it goes like this: What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving...
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    rally wheels

    I need two 14 inch large bolt pattern wheels. anybody willing to part with a pair?
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    1968 dart front marker lights

    i need a pair of working, not necessarily beautiful, front marker lights for a 68 dart. the plugs are not necessarily needed to be intact so long as there is enough wire to use a connnector. anyone got any?
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    new trunk seal

    i got a new trunk seal, weatherstrip for the car... what do i use to attach it to the car? adhesive of some sort...
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    time slips...

    tried entering my info into the time slip database but... even though the info remains in the entry fields i do not see it appear in the database... am I not doing something? I do not have all the information and do not know how to get things like altitude density... i aint even heard of that...
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    Mopars invade Centerville, pics.

    I too kthe death mobile to the races for the first time this weekend, centerville dragway in Centerville, Arkansas. I have never drag raced anything (formally) before this weekend. I made two passes, one by myself and another against a car that was far from being street legal. Due to bad...
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    Superman 3

    Ok, this movie is oretty terrible, in so many ways, but nevertheless I found myself with nothing to do after a long days work in the sun yesterday, maybe I was a bit out of my gourd... I dunno. But I decided to watch it, and I could not beleive how much mopar was in there. In the beginning...
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    Fried Electricals

    Have you ever had one of those days where you set out to get someting accomplished, only to never do so? I had one of them days... I was cruising down the road to go to the local sporting warehouse to buy some gun powder for reloading purposes when out of no where my car died. Everything...
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    wheels to fit over disc brakes

    ok, so I don't know much about wheels and rims and all that hoo nanny. Am about to put disc brakes fro ma 74 dart on the front of my car, and the only extra rims I got at the moment are some 14 in steel poverty rims. Will they fit over the calipers? Surely they used 14 in steel poverty...
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    Fun with pics, animations.

    took pics today while playing around with the rear of the car, these are actually kind of from the middle of the project decided to take the rear trim off and start sanding the trunk. but anyway, took several pics in sequence while changing position a bit after each shot. My car is not much...
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    Decisions decisions...

    ok, so, relying upon the impeccable taste of my fellow mopar fanatics... which would you put in your car? the one with the silver plates is not very cleaned up, but it is on a base that is physically perfect, even though it is dull and could you some spit and polish. the plates are pitted...
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    1968 dart front marker placement

    am turning a pair of 69 dart front fenders into 68's. both the fenders that came with my car were pretty mangled. can anyone with a 68 dart give me some measurements for hole placement? like the distance from the front edge of the fender to the forward edge of the hole, and a second...
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