charlie74
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Yes, the link above is very useful. Especially on a tablet where can take screenshots, zoom, and print paper copies and it doesn’t get dog eared and covered in oily fingerprints…
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Great video Toby, I envy you your space and equipment! That lifting frame is really nicely made; i bet you could sell some of those to restoration shops…
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I’m pretty sure I did this repair with the sump in place. What I did more recently when I rebuilt my engine was used exhaust manifold studs in the holes (in the installed helicoils) and set them in place with thread lock and nuts and washers to secure the rear of the sump. Not sure if you can do this with the engine in the car and the sump in place but I think its a good repair.
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Earlier this winter I took my lights apart to clean them and change the gaskets. During the cleaning I was surprised to see how fragile the silver coating in the reflectors is so I used a good quality aluminum tape (3M) to replenish the areas where i had rubbed it off. I have LEDS also but want my lights to be as bright as possible…
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If you do take more than one off, do them one at a time and make sure they go back on in the same orientation. Do NOT mix them up…!
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12 hours ago, Casar66 said:
I do not want to change the bolts, I mean just the lower shell half.
I think the bolts should be fine and if your bearings aren’t showing obvious wear and your oil pressure was good they can probably be reused. You could plasti-gauge it to verify clearance if you like but you’re probably going to be fine.. after all, if you hadn’t had an oil leak you wouldn’t be worrying about this to begin with…! (No disrespect intended! I know what it’s like getting into a potential tin of worms; it’s hard to know when to stop…!)
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On 12/30/2023 at 1:48 PM, Shaun70 said:
I have done a bit of searching and I am a bit worried the head gasket may have ‘blown’. When I turned the engine off just now there was a very clear gurgling sound coming from the radiator area/overflow bottle.
If you had a blown head gasket and were getting coolant into the combustion chambers, you would see your exhaust turn white…
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If rings wouldn’t the marks go the whole length of the stroke? It’s hard to tell in the photos…
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Is the body on the car? That lift in the picture above might not be long enough to reach past the bumper, valence, radiator, fan shroud etc. There’s a lot of front end in front of the engine on our cars…
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That’s pretty good! I repurposed my cam gear into a coaster after media blast, paint, and putting gasket material on the bottom. It turned out well but I haven’t decided what to do with the old cam yet. I had thought it could be a handle for a large cupboard door or something like that…
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Here are he pics I would have posted last week if I had been at home:
The connection is the line on the left (secured to choke cable), the brake servo is the other.
Hope this helps!
c74
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6 hours ago, Mike C said:
That's a good idea. I never drive the car with the top up so I've also disconnected my eyeball vents. Can you post a photo when you get a chance. I'm interested on what gauge face you've selected for the PI system and where you took the vacuum tapping from .
I’d be happy to when able. I have a NA model with carburetors so my connections wont be the same as a PI model but i can definitely still do so…
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I sacrificed the (useless IMHO) eyeball vent between the steering column and door and installed a NOS Smiths vacuum gauge in it’s location. It looks like it belongs and works quite well. I don’t have a picture unfortunately, sorry…and won’t for a couple of weeks due to work.
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A battery quick connect with the little knob you can take with you and a fuel shut-off valve but neither one of those will stop someone with a flat bed and a winch…
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I bought one a few years ago from Amazon called Depstech which requires a download of their app. You can connect an iOS (not sure about Samsung) device to it wirelessly and view the picture on the device screen and take pictures. Here is an example of the picture quality:
The clarity of the picture in my album is better than what this upload would suggest.
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These are the instructions that came with my Newman cam (an asymmetrical cam in this case):
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My heater core is bypassed but I think I would raise the front of the car (use ramps perhaps), remove the thermostat and housing, open the heater valve and pour into both the block and the radiator until you can’t add any more. Install the thermostat with the gasket, run it, let it cool (still on ramps), and add coolant as necessary.
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Beautiful! Well done, you have reason to be proud!
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best of luck!
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I like having my kids in the car one at a time. It cuts down on the squabbling! I’ll pass…
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Could be the coil; they’re easy enough to swap and see. Make sure all wire connections are good. Fresh fuel to dilute old might help as well…
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Once you have everything back together, don’t forget to pump the pedal a couple of times before you take the car out for a road test…there can be too much “slack” in the calipers if the pistons were pushed completely in to the caliper bore and if you don’t do this your first application might not stop you…
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That’s where it starts! Resources like this forum and others like Youtube are a huge help and the satisfaction you get from doing things yourself (as well as saving a tonne of money) is a great feeling. These cars are dead easy to keep going if you’re motivated enough. Don’t sell yourself short!