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  1. my friends used this picture for their Christmas card taken by "ART" during my wedding reception.
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  2. Theres enough heat off the exhaust manifold never mind adding some............LOL I do not see a need for this, my set-up is a stock intake made into duals, and my stock exhaust manifold is a tru separated dual exhaust, plenty of heat. So this water fed plate, is supposed to warm up there Fenton Intake, heck by the time the water warms up the exhaust will be hot too. AoK racing is not an advocate of heated intakes. Mine even in the bitter cold is fine with a little choke until it warms up
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  3. the area that would leak exhaust is already welded up , the intake section is an 'easy bake oven' so to speak...
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  4. Close,but no cigar. Ain't NOTHING sounds nastier than a Max Wedge Mopar. Hot Y-block Fords do come close,though. They just don't make the ground shake as they idle past.
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  5. re-sleeving is a good idea no matter how much the vehicle is driven. If driven little it seems like a high per mile cost, but vehicles driven less, and/or sit for long periods will benefit from re-sleeving by not having the failure associated with pitting cylinders. Loss of your brakes due to failed cylinders just once at the wrong time will reveal the shortsightedness of thinking a re-sleeve is not practical.
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    Template to make a clutch over spring tool for adjusting the clutch over spring.
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  7. Hello All. Been perusing the site for a couple years, but haven't taken the time to make a post... I've enjoyed many of the posts and picked up/learned a bit (most of it sticks) about the old mopars (my first). Love the lines on these cars. The pic is the day we gave her a ride to her new home. Body is sound and the six purrs like a kitten!!
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  8. There is a reprinted Mopar repair manual for 1946-1950 Plymouth cars (originally printed 1950) that has frame specs done with drawings of all mouthing points for motor and original transmission with measurements for frame straightening etc. of the 1946 thru 1950 per model/years. Your fame appears to be cut up some for a different motor/transmission. Also the driver side rear end kick up of the frame looks to have been replaced and is flattened out. I would post a picture or two of the mentioned frame pictures but my printer/scan machine decided it was tired and not working properly. Pretty sure others on this forum have the same repair manual and can look to the frame section and copy to the forum.for you. DJ
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  9. Works great with the heater on.
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  10. Route your heater hose thru it, it helps warm the intake
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  12. Where in the real world are you going to have a vehicle that needs to produce peak HP at 6000 rpm??? IsNascar going to have a vintage truck race division? Making HP @high rpm and using it are very different and distinct things. The engine in my daily driver produces it peak HP a 6200, I don't believe I have had it that high except for a couple of very brief bursts. Peak torque is at 4000. Going down the road at 70 is 2100. Again where do you use this high rpm power??? Is this discussion about size matters or satisfaction?
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  13. I have a split exhaust on my '38 Dodge with the original Stromberg. I drive my car in temps down to around 20 degrees F when highways are clear (no heater). the only issue I have had is an occasional stall at a stop, then alleviated with applying a slight pull on throttle knob.I have noticed icing on the throat in the cold and condensation in the milder temps. The '38 has cowl vents and cools nicely, your '50 is probably a bit warmer under the hood.
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  14. Be thankful you are not in California or the environmentalists would likely require a study of the bats before you could do anything. LOL
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  15. When I called Earl several years ago he was just getting into Mopars. I think that was 1999. He later did a head which I bought and it overheated. I asked about cam specs but he wouldnt really give me the specs. I ran into George Asche and Tim Kingsbury are Chrysler Carlisle and they had many cam patterns, including Esky patterns as well as custom grinds only they had. I asked for specs and they handed me over all of the specs for any cam. Whether Earl came up with more than 1 design I have no idea, but what I do know is the Asche's and Kingsbury family has been doing this for not a decade or two but over 50 years. If you want a cam, id strongly suggest getting in touch with them. There is my two cents.
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  16. it will run just fine the way it is. Might be prone to icing in the carb depending on temperature and humidity.
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  17. OK, the Dean family is stealing this idea next year. Great Christmas card!
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  18. Someone needs to put air in those tires and run something over.
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  20. I doubt very much that the relief spring is the problem. If it were broken a problem would be present all the time. Could be an oil issue.....wrong viscosity, dilution etc...or it is caused by worn out main bearings and / or oil pump. Need more info. Jeff
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  21. Yeah, That's how those small block chevy engines are. I ignored one for about 5 years, dumped gas down the carb and it fired right up.About a gallon of water puked out the tailpipe when it started though.
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  22. On that granary, I agree, put in a high door, store the car there and have blue grass and country/western concerts in the summer with old car friends!
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  23. HI Worden,your granary looks to be solid, usable building. Have you considered putting a overhead door in the end, and parking the Meadowbrook in there? Money saved could be used for gas in the Meadowbrook allowing you to keep your fan base entertained!!!
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  24. First off,you do NOT want to put a breaker bar with a lever on the crank nut. If you can't get the engine to turn over with all the spark plugs out of it just by using a normal breaker bar and moderate pressure,you need to go back and start over again. Pull all the plugs and fill all the cylinders with something like Kroil,or a mixture of WD-40 and ATF. Let it sit for a couple of days to allow any that is going to seep past the rings using gravity to do so. Pull the side plates so you can see which cylinders have closed valves,and then use a auto parts store "valve hold shut" device that is used to hold valves shut while changing springs on OHV engines. I have made them from old spark plugs by knocking out the center and then tapping it so a air hose fitting will screw into it. Anyhow,the idea is to crank your air compressor output up to it's max,and then attach a hose from the air compressor to each cylinder that has the valves closed,one by one. Sometimes this is enough because just one cylinder being stuck can keep the engine from turning over freely. Sit back and relax until you hear "blub,blub,blub" noises coming from the base (you did remove the oil filler cap,right?) of the first one you hooked the air line too,and then move on to the next one. Once you have both bleeding air/allowing the Kroil/whatever to bleed down,pour both full again. No such thing as too much lube when freeing a stuck engine. Hook up your battery and "bump" the starter. I do NOT mean twist the key like you are trying to start it,I mean "bump it". You might be surprised at how often this works. If it doesn't work,close the rest of the valves and do this to each cylinder until you get them all free and spinning. Do NOT forget to add more Kroil/whatever to each cylinder as you free them up. Finish off by spinning the engine with the starter for short periods of time until you have pumped up oil pressure on your gauge. Normally,this would be when you would put the spark plugs back in it and start it up,but in your case you would just put them back in and pull the engine. It might even save you some machine shop labor money because an engine that is lubed up and spinning freely is easier to disassemble. At a minimum it will mean fewer parts broken by the machine shop as they force it apart.
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  25. I used a universal rubber cowl seal. I got mine from soffseal.com which is similar to this picture I got from mac's antique auto parts online. The softseal catalog was a bit big and I did want to search it to far, but give you a idea of an automotive type stick on cowl seals out there.
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  26. I have used this exact rubber seal on parts like fender skirts. It worked fine and stuck in place. The fact that the seal is hollow makes it a little more prone to tearing though. I also use it for mounting spoilers to trunk lids where I don't want water getting under the spoiler and leaking through the bolt holes. In this situation it never gets moved except for repairs or something. Overall, it is cheap but not useless. I have removed it with a heat gun to help soften the glue with no paint removal on properly painted surfaces. If the paint is old or flakey then who knows. Hope that helps.
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  27. Shhh, don't tell (Rob) my b3hh he has a floor hand brake instead of the "T" under the dash brake.
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  28. I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas snd introduce Ol Rufus
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  29. I have a 1953 block that I received with two sets of main caps. I decided to check a few of them to see if I could determine which was the correct set. I have a dial bore gauge to check. what I found was that all the caps would interchange in their correct location i.e. Main on main position, #1 cap on #1 position etc. What this leads me to believe is that the caps were machined to a specification rather than to a specific block. A costly way on doing things, certainly not what I would have expected. Now, whether I could drop a crank into the block is another question. I don't have a good set of bearing shells to test this. I do not know the answer. What you might try is Bolting on the caps and seeing if they have overlap on the bearing shell parting lines. If they do, you have no alternative but to line bore. If they look good try installing the bearing shells drop in the crank and install a cap with a bearing inserted one at a time and see if the crank gets tight or turns smoothly. I'd then talk to your machine shop to see if they can verify whether it truly needs a line bore.
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  30. Thought I posted this yesterday but I must have not hit the submit reply button. On my dual point converted distributor the condenser is mounted externally. I also use an electric drill (550 RPM's) to adjust the dwell (point gap) with the distributor spinning for greater accuracy. I also use a vacuum generator to add the correct shims to the vacuum advance to correctly set the curve.
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  31. Thanks for the compliments on my engine. It has proven to be very dependable and I do not baby it. I once did just shy of 800 miles in one day and most of that was at 70 MPH. When I bought my engine the block was stripped naked and all the parts were in a basket so to speak. I was told that all the machine work had been completed but I found that was not the case as the crankshaft needed some additional work. The new valves that came with my engine are from a shiverlay. They work well. I was told that the new pistons were also chevy but I cannot verify that. The pistons are .030" oversize for a final diaplacement of 255 CI.
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