The Jalopy Journal
Warm engine will show moving parts properly tightening together on a compression check. I don't think you have a carbon ring stick problem. You...
Tri-power has found a good change in his situation. Were the compression changes found with a wet compression check or after the engine had been...
I may be getting old because I screwed up a customer the other day......and he finally caught on.... Hair drier for a thirteen letter manure...
I learned this in a truck I bought in 1986. GM point type distributor needs a ballast resistor. Just get one for a darn Dodge and make it easy,...
OK, the master cylinder is bad. Guys before me nailed it. Why? The booster does not lose it's mechanical connection to the master cylinder from...
I've been missing here for a long time but not for any bad reasons. I'm very thankful for working in an essential business of services and parts...
For the aluminum argument, if you have an angle vibration problem, you're throwing money at a lighter driveshaft to hide the problem. Some...
Use a Summit K-1103 or K-1104 as an example, or a Comp 4x4 12-243-3 cam. The Summit cam numbers transfer to Sealed Power numbers that you can buy...
One last tidbit, have a spare front driveshaft handy. Why? The stub that mounts the carrier bearing can be twisted. The yoke ears of the end...
The stock u-joint is 1310 series, Spicer 5-153x for greasable, 5-1310x for sealed. The carrier bearing is a Spicer 210527x. If the slip yoke...
If you have to pull the driveshaft on this car, jack up the rear about a good foot or more and put your jackstands under the axle tubes. When you...
If it's a driveshaft vibration at highway speed, the sensation will be like a cycling rumble around 55 mph depending on what the cause is. If it's...
Eastwood & Barakat sedan. The Willys coupe with the blown 392 in the NW.
This past Saturday morning I was getting to work early, rolling east toward the Little Rock airport and not driving hard. An SUV had cleared the...
My car is traditional dependent on how many folks want to argue about how it is and is not. So, to define traditional as to always have drum...
I'll give a hint for a couple of part numbers to make the wiring easy. Standard HP3815 for the relay holder with a bracket molded to it. Remove...
I put Afco coilovers on the rear of my highboy A Tudor, 250 lb springs, because it was to be full fender. I have the battery and 18 gallon fuel...
I worked at a Gulf service station after getting out of the Air Force in 1988. I figured out the guy operating it was dealing something. I got...
In the second pic, you can get a good look at the pinion support bearing. It has rollers missing. I would be extremely suspicious of the gearset...
Hope for a heavier car with 165SR15 tires to not having much braking or turning needs, or city driving. I can make the front tires of my...
I like the line I use at the job I've been working at for almost 2 years. What do I know, I'm just the rookie parts guy.....? And other than...
It was covered in a less popular magazine, like American Rodder or something like it. Lot of history. And the workmanship from back then! And...
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Has been covered in a magazine I have in my piles. Connecticut Deuce roadster guy shared pics here from a car show last weekend or so. Fronty...
Now that I can look at what Donnie Stringfellow sent me, and he and Jim Kirk signed... Based on small cid late SBC blocks and stock cranks...
IIRC, Stringfellow and Kirk were using a highly modified turbocharged small engine when they went 263 mph and set a record at Bonneville in 1995....
I have a '97 4.3 S10 5 speed in my A Tudor with avatar engine. The only reason I can get by with it is I don't drag race it. Not enough torque...
FWIW, the slip yoke adapter sleeve that the Axiline press-up machine and balancer uses for this GM application is marked 1.500.
1.500 for your ground diameter is what the J300P says.
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