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Well, boys, I ain't workin' on it yet unless you include working on the owner to take my money for the last three years. Today, I finally got a sincere offer to sell and a hard price from my friend. In short order, will be dragging home a legitimate 1970 Dart Swinger 340/4-speed...

Yes, but that doesn't make it unusable. It's a weird grind, though, for sure. That's a bunch of duration for such low lift. Wow. You justify ridiculous expenses like I do. "Well, I don't have a carburetor. Might as well go Six Pack!" 😂 I've seen that before, but never in an engine I've...

I misdirected you on the lever. The Hurst lever is flat, but the factory lever has an offset like what you pictured. If it counts for anything, I did get the stamping information correct. 😐 If the Erson catalog's numbering corresponds, the HIFLO 2H is probably the HI-FLOW IIH (easier to stamp...

Are you sure you've got the right lever on the transmission, and that it's positioned correctly? If it's a factory setup, the lever should be stamped "L", installed so you can read it. If it's an aftermarket Comp Plus or Street Super Shifter (SS1), the lever should be stamped "105 4829" or...

Well, if one has an interior installed it's not nearly as bad. If my electric pump wasn't mounted on a frame rail below the rear seat, the Valiant would actually be surprisingly quiet for the idiotic engine powering it. I did spray the floor pans with some Cascade Audio Engineering sound...

I assume the pad was rattling. Is the car A-body or A-/E-body brakes (big bolt pattern)? You have to set the choke and fast idle with the carb ice cold, and the fast idle with the carb warm. Now, if that car only has the one idle screw, then the best thing I can tell you is to clean the cam...

@69.5CUDA this might be up your alley. I need the speaker grille area from a '67-'76 A-body dash structure for some custom work on my '68 dash. I'd like the entire area between the defroster vents, with an inch or so margin at the front and rear. I'd also like the speaker mounting bracket. I...

It does not use fuel-sender specifications. Those numbers are completely unrelated. If someone told you the fuel specs are the same, they're wrong. It's an NTC sensor, so the higher the temperature the lower the resistance. I had a spec sheet downloaded at home with the specs for literally...

I didn't forget about you, man. I've been a bit under the weather but trying to decipher that wiring diagram regardless. I'm starting to wonder if their techs didn't go to Wurlitzer School because the labeling is fairly awful for the uninitiated. I think I know what's happening there but I...

You may have a flaky voltage limiter on the cluster. As you may or may not recall, the fuel and temp gauges in Agnes were both smoked as a result of a limiter failure. I've gotten to the point where I won't install a cluster anymore without installing one of the solid-state limiters from Real...

While I'll be the first guy to say that's insane, you have to remember there's a lot happening there. Yeah, so it's supposedly an HP block out of a Challenger R/T. That adds exactly zero value to the block unless the buyer owns that exact R/T. There is nothing "HP" about an HP block except...

If you've got the schematic for the volume potentiometer, sure. As far as the amp itself goes, I'll take a look but I'm not sure what I'll find. Those schematics can be nightmarish, but I might be able to figure out where you can tap for an auxiliary.

Well, you know when to say when. It's better than continuing and making everything worse. Well, all A-engines have angled plugs so there's nothing magical there. Is the socket touching the header flange? I had that problem on my Cordoba. I had to clearance the flanges for the plug socket...

😄 Very important. In fact, it gives me a boner! You've got 'em installed, so adjusting can wait until you have a bit more energy. Of course, ... and if I've learned anything, your energy will be steadily depleted over the course of those. It saps energy you haven't even gotten back yet...

Plug readings on an engine that hasn't been driven are essentially useless, especially when most of its run time has been at idle with the choke engaged. They'll always look like that. There's no use in reading the plugs until after it's been driven. I'm not sure which plugs you're using, but...

I swear, tracking numbers are somewhere between false hope and outright shenanigans. I sent a USPS Priority Mail envelope on Thursday, and it said "Accepted by post office" for five days, but no movement afterward. I called the post office yesterday to inquire and was assured it left on the...

Well, if you're going to wire in an auxiliary input of some kind, the amp being always-on is actually to your benefit. Otherwise you'd have to figure out how to make the amp come on with the aux. Not impossible, but a bit time-consuming. It's just something about which you don't have to...

Holy smokes, man... you've just now made an appointment to get it aligned?

It seems most of my blessings come well-disguised, so I'm too angry to realize I'm having a blessed day until well after the fact. My tips don't even reach the rear bumper, yet despite the exhaust vomiting black smoke and soot like a coal-fired freighter, my bumper remains clean. It's the...

One wonders if those people realize how annoying they can be. He sounds like the manager I replaced at two different stores (same guy): It it's not on the shelf or in the computer by application, it doesn't exist. I guess that's why my current store's sales increased by $120,000 in my first...