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Here’s the entire upper end of the engine on my bench. Which brings me to the hard part. This engine has Alusil cylinders. There was a crapshoot as to which cylinders I’d find in here. Nikasil cylinders are essentially a hard cylinder wall with a soft piston and rings. Alusil cylinders are...

Above are shots of the timing housing disassembly, and the shiny spots under the flashlight are where the broken head studs used to be. Following are pics of the motor with the cam covers off, and the cylinder heads being removed. The second shot shows the motherluvin barrel bolt just down...

Okay.. long overdue update.. get a glass, and plant your ass. I figured out that that by removing (cutting) the bolts for the muffler, the motor would slide down my stairs sidewards. I could then disassemble my stupidly massive and heavy cherry picker, take it downstairs, and reassemble it...

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I've rebuilt them, never detailed the assembly, though

The first three years were very pretty, no question.. despite the length of the car, nobody above 6' can actually be comfortable in them, though.. cramped as shit in those cabins. My favorite T-bird has to be a black '64 convertible. The least fussy of the 64-66 years, and possibly one of the...

Okay.. update. I got the motor out. It's super easy. Disconnect the shifter linkage, cruise control, fuel lines, evap hoses, throttle linkage, move the AC compressor out of the way, disconnect three wiring harnesses, disconnect two big oil return hoses, undo the half shafts at the gear box...

Fair enough. It's a series II, 2+2.. admittedly not as pretty as the dropheads, or the series I hardtop. Still, I wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating crackers. In addition to the 911 with the broken head studs, this is the other one that was dropped off for some minor service work...

I have a commercial account at Advance (for ten plus years), the guys at NAPA know me. Hell, I work on the owner's BMW 3.0 CS and his TR250. I also live on the other side of town from the Carquest regional warehouse. They know me too. Nobody can get me parts for my old Volvos and Mopars, let...

I've got an '81 Targa coming in soon. I'm real tempted to pull his lower covers and check the studs. Better to catch it now than when the head's slapping against the cylinder. It sucks, I don't think this guy's going to fix it. What's worse is that if I get in there and find he's got...

The real relief came when I saw the sheared ends. Those aren't fresh. Have I made a problem worse? Possibly/likely. Was I the cause of the problem? No. Sometimes that's the best possible outcome.

I had a customer bring me his '82 911 SC for a "shaky" oil temp gauge needle, of all things. I've fiddled with this car for about five years, and the owner largely neglects it. He keeps it in the public parking garage downtown except for the spring time. Then he pulls it out, drives it two or...

I just put a bunch of highway miles on the little white four door '63 Valiant.. white steel wheels, and dog dish caps.. Almost everybody who waved or smiled at me was a woman person. I think it's appeal is that it's totally unassuming.. It doesn't rumble, doesn't have nose down attitude, isn't...

All early As with slants had the stupid rod/bell crank setup. It looks like this. You'll notice just to the right of the bell crank hole on the firewall, there's three black spots. These are the mounts/holes for the factory V8 throttle cable (this is my factory 273 Dart.. has both...

Got the car up and running today. Interior's back in and doesn't look half bad. I guessed at the color for the vinyl on the dash pad, and the defroster vent paint was from a Challenger model I made in 2002 or so.. last half of the little can was just enough. In some light, the vents are a...

I got the dash cap back today, which works out because the last floor pan went in last night. The set of them showed up and were completely flat except for flat bends where the toe board and trans tunnel are. They had a bead or two rolled in them in places, but generally sat an inch or two...

Anyone have an idea on how to fix the fading yellow plastic instrument panels that the factory somehow chromed? I tried "aluminum" colored spray paint from rustoleum on the pushbutton bezel. It's shiny enough to not look like primer, but matte enough not to look like shitty spray chrome. I...

A lot of old Alfas I worked on had what I assumed were copper exhaust nuts. I'm not sure I ever thought they were brass. The color was too reddish to be brass, based on recollection. They could've been bronze, but I always thought they were copper without any sort of metallurgical thoughts...

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Progress made. my car is now a super six. I had to replace the gas pedal, convert the bellcrank and rod over to a throttle cable, go through the carb, adapt a kick down linkage to work, torch and bend the new pedal mechanism to get WOT, and generally spend about another three hours finding and...