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I don't think many pilots in #2 had or wanted flames on their plane even painted ones. They did have a taste for pretty ladies tho..Some of the...
I'm sorry for dropping out. I was partway thru a Smokey Y. tale & my Smarter than me phone deleted. ! can't get back where I was, but l'll make...
Just a couple things i've seen. You aren't running a pressure cap on an old Billows therm.stat? I didn't think so, but saw a fast car pull out of...
42 Buick, 320, full house,Q.C. 375H-6500 R. 10 yr.3/8 dirt=10K laps, 3 inseat susp adj. V8 eater
Minus 13" W.B.
1942 Buick sedanette,320 Roadnaster, bored, cam,,big valves, 2 Hollys,QC 6500 rpm . A V8 eater. Original except new tin. 10k laps
I had a pair of wooden ramps built by another high school student as a class project. He probably got an A but they almost killed me, My own fault...
This was a big thread in '08. When I built Fireball 5 back in '68, I insisted on keeping rear coils, and it paid off. I built the diff. with old...
Hard ride.
1974
First race, 1969.
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Add on to fuel thoughts.. Never use "gasahol " in 2 cycle engines. It leans the mixture and as a good solvent tends to wash the slim oil film off...
When using Sta-Bil,be sure to operate long enough to get treatment into carburators. With atmospheric [float type] carbs this and many jets and...
For years I have used stuff called Liquid Tape on all connections on underbody or inframe locations. Not as pretty as heat shrink but it...
A longshot, but, you don't have an axle working out of its' pressed on bearing? Fireball 5
Me too, besides,that 3M stuff don't qualify for Medicaid ! Fireball 5
This should go without saying but never go near a gas tank with any kind of flame. An empty bone dry tank is just as dangerous as one with fuel....
That seems like a strange way to cure a problem caused by something else. I bought scrap from our local dealer back then that always included lots...
A friend with a cruddy tractor fuel tank put in some fuel oil and better than half a coffee can of new cheap nuts,3/8 thru1/2 inch, then ratchet...
We ran Champion j2j's in Buick I L 320 from late 60's to late 70;s never had a plug problem, but had an intermittent misfire coming out of...
A few years ago fram was scoring pistons & cylinders on 5.9 Cummins, by the dozens just around here. The 5.9 has a row of oil ports that squirt on...
Great Pictures! Even some Buicks. Some autos would follow rails perfectly with slightly lowered tire pressure. My [dads] 49 chevy front wheels...
The term came from the procedure of Dragging the R P M's and shift points way beyond normal usage. Instead of fishing for 2nd gear at 1000 they...
Once towed an air compressor.- behind a Dune Buggy,- behind a 16 foot trailer of eqpt.- behind a 1ton International 4x4,- behind a GMC 2 ton boom...
When a man owns a trailer, he may only use it 1% of his time, However, He will work on the lights and wiring about 50 % of his time. Fireball 5
Yessir, blowby and others got it right, I don't know what mfgr. called them, it's a caster-camber gauge to me and one of the slickest tools there...
Buick Valve In Head If the Lord meant for engines to be flat, He would have made the world that way.
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