273 Commando Top End Rebuild on my 65 Dart GT

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65Val said:
That a Commando piston alright....
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Yup!

Darter6 said:
Nice !
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Thanks!

nm9stheham said:
When you're cleaning up, scrape off the carbon and see if there is an L2222 stamped in the dome. That is an old TRW number.
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I'll take a look - i didnt notice yet. its a bit dark where i'm working and ive just been scraping grease!

Speaking of which - does anyone have any images they can attach as to which parts should be painted what? I noticed my alternator bracket had some orange on it, which i almost shot black.. so it went back to orange.
 
ddartdude said:
The alternator bracket, crank and water pump pulleys, and motor mounts are all black.
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Thank you - i was going to make my alt bracket black but it had a lot of orange on it.... i want to make sure it goes back stock.. and it looked so good orange!

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I posted this here already, but I finally got my engine all put back together this weekend. No big issues while doing so - seems i have some sort of charging issue (probably just bad alternator, i'll test today after work), the carburetor had a leak so i had to plug that, and this weekend i'll throw a timing light on it and tune the carburetor. Other than that, it starts immediately, runs flawlessly, and looks great! :) some pictures:

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crashcaptn said:
I posted this here already, but I finally got my engine all put back together this weekend. No big issues while doing so - seems i have some sort of charging issue (probably just bad alternator, i'll test today after work), the carburator had a leak so i had to plug that, and this weekend i'll throw a timing light on it and tune the carburator. Other than that, it starts immediately, runs flawlessly, and looks great! :) some pictures:

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Looking good!... But you need the Mopar throttle adapter on your Holley carb to get full throttle and proper lickdown geometry.
 
65Val said:
Looking good!... But you need the Mopar throttle adapter on your Holley carb to get full throttle and proper lickdown geometry.
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i had no idea such a thing existed. there was a lot of shade tree engineering happening over that thing..
EDIT: do you have a link to the part? i was googling and i dont see it.
 
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