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  1. The day we drug it home from the farm.
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  2. As all of you might know Hershey will be coming on October 10-13. If you plan on attending this great event please take some time to stop by my vendor spot in the Orange field. I will be in Orange field row OAD 7&8. Stop by and say hello and take sometime to rest and talk mopar. Rich Hartung desoto1939@aol.com cell 484-431-8157
    2 points
  3. HEY......green is a color......LOL
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  4. Why build a race engine for the street??? Factory peak hp was pulled at 3600, it falls off after that. My machine shop guy suggested 10% over that was safe and a bit meaningful, over that was just more noise. Also suggested 80/85 % of 3600 was a safe cruise all day speed assuming good engine condition and proper oil pressure. So rather than build for a peak rpm, why not build to usable street able range. These are torque engines not hp engines. Torque gets you going, hp keeps you going... My slightly modified 230, accelerates fairly briskly, has plenty of power to pass and climb hills, and cruises nicely at 65 with overdrive and gets 20+ mpg in the bargain. Personally there isn't much more I require of a 72 year old car.
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  5. Its time to bring your truck before your peers and have some cold beers.....or root beer.....its all in good cheer!!! Tim aka 48Dodger 209-401-9595 Text me with who you are and I'll text you back with the info you need.
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  6. Bit of a back story here. In 1948 a couple of things happened. One, my dad was born... and 2, Great Grandpa bought a new truck for the farm. Both the truck, and Dad, are still around. Story goes that Grandpa wasn't big on changing oil. When the THIRD motor died, sometime in the 70's, it got parked in the line of scrap out at the farm. Fast forward 30 years... I'm in high school, I love working out at the farm, and meander past the line of dead equipment often. My senior year, I talked my Dad and Uncle into letting me work on it in my shop class. We drug it into town, got it in to the shop, and started tearing it apart. It apparently sat for 30 years with the cap off the oil fill tube. Mice removed the stuffing from the seat and deposited ALL of it in the crankcase. When I dropped the pan off the motor, it was stuffed clear up to the bottom of the pistons with seat innards. Gross. In the stuffing was a mixture of piston skirts and rust. This was NOT looking good... It was seized tighter than a drum. No amount of anything we could would persuade it to move. Did I mention how NOT fun it is to get that motor out? My shop teacher was a Chevy only guy, and this was waaaaayyyyyy before youtube and the internets. To compound the pain, the truck is a Fluid Drive... I had to drop the crank out of the bottom of the engine because there was no way to spin it enough to get the bolts out of the back for the torque converter, which has to come out to get the bell housing out, but it turns out you have to take the bell housing out with the engine, and on... and on... and on.... I managed to find the front half of a Fargo that some farmer cut the back end off to make into a trailer. We drug that in and pulled the motor out of it. It, too, was seized. To this day, neither one will spin. By now I was out of time and never had any money for any other options, so the truck got pulled out of the school shop and put in one of my Dad's spare shops. I graduated, and moved on with life...
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  7. Hi everyone, I want to introduce myself, my name is Eric I live in Vermont and just recently picked up a 1955 Dodge C3-B6-108. I have been looking at classic trucks for many years. My wife happened to drive by this one on the one day is parked down by the road. We looked at it the next day and made an offer on the spot. It took the owner about 10 days to finally decide she wanted to sell it. When I went to register it at the State DMV they told me the low book value was 14k. I paid 6k for it. I had no idea of the book value when I made the offer. We found a running truck that is in pretty good shape as far as the body goes. Only one minor rusty area that needs to be fixed. We were told that it is over heating and couldn’t go over 45mph. Brakes had been done recently(?)It does not have the original engine. It has what I think is a 1968-74 225 slant six with a four speed transmission. So far I have driven it around the yard a little and up and down road some.Work done so far:replaced the water pump as it was seeping.replaced the radiator with a new aluminum one. Replaced all hoses in the engine compartment. Replaced one brake line in the rear drum. I have some questions about identifying the engine further and what type of transmission. I can tell by the casting that the engine is a 68-74. How can I pinpoint the year the engine is?Does it matter?Where would I look for what type of transmission I have? It is a 4 speed and I can't get out of my driveway in 1st gear. I have to shift up to second as I only get about 6 mph in 1st. After some driving and attempting to get it inspected. A fairly long list of stuff to fix. Mostly minor. We have the opportunity to put what looks like a good running 85 318 V8 which currently has an automatic transmission into this truck. We want this to be able to be a daily driver. Any thoughts about this type of swap would be great.Thanks for having me here I am sure I will have a bunch more questions.
    1 point
  8. Any oil rated for diesel use has plenty of zinc in it.
    1 point
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  10. My best GUESS is synthetic oil wouldn't harm new seals in a newly rebuild engine,and if rebuilt properly,the engine should last practically forever. Look at how long most of them lasted using crap oil like 30wt Quaker state non-detergent oil. I am assuming you have a oil filter on the engine,or have added one? I would be really hesitant to just add synthetic oil to a old engine full of non-detergent oil and crud,though.
    1 point
  11. I certainly could imagine the fall colors, sorry it did not work out.
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  12. We rescued a dog from the local shelter, she is a Ausrailian shepard puppy. Then we also adopted a stray dog. Mix between a blue tick healer and a black lab, been abused, tail cropped and abandoned. The abused dog is a real challenge, I can not pet her .... every morning she will jump on my bed and lick my face, as long as I am not standing she feels safe. It is going slowly, we had her 4 months now, but both dogs are at or about 1 year old. Every morning I get woken up by the two dogs, and I accuse them of hound dogging me, then I give them cookies while my coffee is cooking. They will have front seat when it is time to go for a ride, or to the park or to go chase ducks ..... Will need to make a seat in the back for the wife
    1 point
  13. go with modern design pistons...its only money....right!
    1 point
  14. Why not put the car up on jackstands,put it in neutral,drop the inspection pan that hides the flywheel,and then turn the drive shaft while looking in there to see if anything is there that shouldn't be there? Hell of a lot easier than pulling the trans.
    1 point
  15. High reciprocating mass (pistons and upper parts of connecting rods) combined with long stroke. These conditions create high inertial forces that put strain on rod bearings. Forces at rod bearings are proportionate to square of rotational speed, so at 4,000 rpm the load on rod bearings is 4 times that at 2,000 rpm. Excessive force squeezes out oil film, leading to bearing failure. Modern engines can run at higher speeds because they use lighter pistons and rods, and because they are generally short stroke.
    1 point
  16. Well, don't leave us hanging... Did you ever get back to work on it, and get it running?
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