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Waiting for April, darn it.
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fishmens67 said:
Sir, would you be willing to share the brand of trans cooler. Thanks
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That Cooler is a Top Street Performance P/N HC6354. I wouldn't recommend it though - the Inlet / Outlet fittings are "18mm x 1.5" and it was a pain in the *** to connect to as these threads aren't tapered, don't have any provision for an O ring etc. I finally found the AN/Metric fittings pictured, and then tracked down some Teflon washers to hopefully seal it.

I reached out to the Top Street Tech Dept about tracking down proper fittings and all I got was "Summit has them". Big Deal. The Pizza guy could have given me an answer like that.

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I would suggest you find something different. I hope this thing doesn't leak on the "big day".
 
Water pump on my 340. Replacing it because there was some light but audible play in the shaft. Murray unit is about 5 years old. Much to the advice on here i replaced it with a high flow milodon water pump. Got it buttoned up. Going to flush the radiator out with distilled water tomorrow then its time to replace the t stat with a milodon t stat to match the highflow pump and fill her back up with fresh coolant


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Got the t stat changed out. Also replaced the rad hoses and the by pass hoses since i had em off anyway. Still gotta put my clutch fan setup together and mount it.


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^Lmfao :rofl:look at the pic^

Guess what happened, i put the lower hose on, took off the t stat, cleaned the intake surface and water neck. Poured coolant in the intake until about a inch below the water neck flange. Assembled the t stat, put the upper hose on and filled up the rad, looked down and realized i forgot to pick the belt up and ran the lower rad hose through the belt lol. So needless to say i wasnt making another coolant mess so i now have a cut belt.
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Its ok it was 5 years old anyway, for $20 im not taking the lower rad hose loose with full coolant in the system lol. So i will have me a new fan belt now, oh-well lol
 
71DodgeDemon340 said:
Got the t stat changed out. Also replaced the rad hoses and the by pass hoses since i had em off anyway. Still gotta put my clutch fan setup together and mount it.


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^Lmfao :rofl:look at the pic^

Guess what happened, i put the lower hose on, took off the t stat, cleaned the intake surface and water neck. Poured coolant in the intake until about a inch below the water neck flange. Assembled the t stat, put the upper hose on and filled up the rad, looked down and realized i forgot to pick the belt up and ran the lower rad hose through the belt lol. So needless to say i wasnt making another coolant mess so i now have a cut belt.
:lol:

Its ok it was 5 years old anyway, for $20 im not taking the lower rad hose loose with full coolant in the system lol. So i will have me a new fan belt now, oh-well lol
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Looking great. ...well, except for. ....lol

Jeff
 
Lol im too honest not to post it. Its a rookie mistake but not the end of the world. For some reason i only seem to do stuff like that on my vehicles and not anyone elses, whats up with that lol
 
Checked on my 02 Silverado L90 work truck with a bad fuel pump...still in the parking lot where it got towed to wednesday....;-( Seems there is a rash of bad pumps at our yard, 3 in 1 month! I thought I was out of gas as I still heard a slight whir of a fuel pump on key turn but it must have been too weak or something.
 
Fun little drive up to a park in the local hills...
My old azz and my car are the same age...!!
Obviously the Cuda aged better...!

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Jeff
 
Dusterdenovo said:
I would suggest you find something different.
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For one with regular hose ends, the Trans-go I bought years ago has worked out fine. It came with transmission hose. Here's how I mounted it. So maybe that's an option.

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and what I did today on the car was swap in a spare alternator. It's kindof fugly but works.
There must be better tricks to getting the spacers lined up. I've got a system, there just has to better...

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71DodgeDemon340 said:
Lol im too honest not to post it. Its a rookie mistake but not the end of the world. For some reason i only seem to do stuff like that on my vehicles and not anyone elses, whats up with that lol
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Heh. Yesterday I switched out a 12si alternator in my Wagoneer and did close to the same. I had this new "94 amp" in a box for a year or two. I've done this swap 1/2 dozen to dozen times. Knowing it may not have clocked, I carefully checked that. But I didn't think about the pulley until I went to slip on the belts. Fortunately, I was able to swap the pulleys without removing it again - but timewise it was still a loss.
 
Getting 2 new front tires on
I was gonna put it off until spring but I'm down 2 cars so the duster is going back to being a daily

Hopefully I can put her back up before the snow though
 
Oil change in the daily driver 64 GMC, I am so ready to get back in Vic (Victoria) and feel the extra hp.

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Thank you @toplscuda , I enjoy these older builds (25 years ago) vintage air kept me cool this summer and the little 305 is tired but still hitting on all 8 :)
 
Dusterdenovo said:
That Cooler is a Top Street Performance P/N HC6354. I wouldn't recommend it though - the Inlet / Outlet fittings are "18mm x 1.5" and it was a pain in the *** to connect to as these threads aren't tapered, don't have any provision for an O ring etc. I finally found the AN/Metric fittings pictured, and then tracked down some Teflon washers to hopefully seal it.

I reached out to the Top Street Tech Dept about tracking down proper fittings and all I got was "Summit has them". Big Deal. The Pizza guy could have given me an answer like that.

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I would suggest you find something different. I hope this thing doesn't leak on the "big day".
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Those look like the power steering fittings on all the late model "metric" stuff. The o-ring goes in the groove behind the last thread of that male fitting. O-ring kind of gets crushed into the groove and into the chamfer on the 1st thread of the female part. Supposed to be good for 1000 psi or something.
 
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