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  1. What was the cause of bad storms 100 years ago????????
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  2. Exactly! Unfortunately these severe storms have been popping up every March, for thousands of years. Its just that no one was around to record it on Facebook, or cable news. ?
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  3. Finished up on installing new hard and soft brakelines, brake pistons and new shoes. Time to move onto the next job, installed the motor today, now with some minor basic wiring I can see if I can get the engine to run next weekend....
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  4. Love the tool But I would Never use one these days. ? Asbestos is some Bad stuff. ? DJ
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  5. He's probably concerned with metal fatigue, especially around the rivet holes or center bend of the blade. . I've seen the results of a blade exiting the fan. One was a nice hole right thru the middle of the hood. The other was a nasty gash in the radiator. But, these where 60s fans in the 60s, so age had nothing to do with it. I've always suspected those happened because the fan blade was fractured when the stiffening ribs where stamped into them. Vibration extended that weak spot. Heavier blades may suffer from this more, IMO anyway.
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  6. I'd be curious as to why a 70 year old fan properly maintained and/or restored would be an issue? I'd bet most here with a 218 are running 60+ year old fans with no issue.
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  7. i recall reading this too. It applied to engines under development or some picked at random for testing. Production engines may have been run up to speed on a jig ( not under their own power) to check oil pressure and so on.
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  8. Don't use a 70 year old fan.... EVER. Get rid of it and get a new one / save your hood, radiator, life... Ask me how I know. They should all be wall hangers
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  9. I generally open my valve a few times over the summer for a bit, just to circulate the coolant around in there and to (hopefully) keep the valve from locking up.
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  10. The problem is that the only readily available 5 speed in Oz that has a commercially available adaptor is the Borg Warner T5 and I went thru all this when I was checking out what setup to do when I had the 41 Plymouth about 10yrs ago.........the Dakota stuff as far as I know has not been sold in Oz...........however the problem we have is that whilst the T5 is very common and was used in both Ford Falcons and Holden Commodores since the 1980's thru to the late 1900's , most ( well 99%, as a small number used the GM pattern box but were behind the Commodore SS in one or two models) T5's used by both Ford and Holden had the Ford gearbox pattern and ALL had the rear mounted shifter..........NO Oz T5 came with the forward mounted shifter like what was used in the US Chev S10 pickup........There is a company in Oz, Mal Wood Automotive who maybe able to source the rear shifter parts, they advertise in Australian Street Rodding.............I was going to get an adaptor from a guy in the US, Paul Curtis, dunno if he still does them.......I imported an S10 T5 and could have raffled it off a few times but sold it with the Plymouth........dunno if this helps.............give me a call if you want.........02 66 425963.......Andy Douglas
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  11. I have listed a Raybestos 6353 and 6354 but I didn't note whether that was left right front back etc... but I used them somewhere on my 46.
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  12. Immigrants! Natives never complained.
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  13. thanks Reg that really helps!, i'm running one of the 25'' blocks also although i haven't been able to id it i was told the original owner swapped the engine for a desoto engine at some point, if i remember right the first letters stamped on the block are CAL witch i could find no info on. Heres one more photo Ed you can see a few other things i'm working on on Instagram @mar_lemos
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  14. Great find! I searched for a long time to find the little emblems under the headlights which arent reproduced by the way. The only downside of your great find is the missing lower grill bar. If you had both chrome center trim pieces for the grill bars, they would of been worth a ton of cash to the 54-56 guys! Cant wait to see it cleaned up and installed!
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  15. Looks good! On that fan, try it and see how you like it. If you do alot of stop and go driving, it should be good to go. It is an industrial fan. IT moves a ton of air but is fairly noisy. If you spend more open road time, I would probably use the 4 blade unit off your other engine.
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  16. Nick, I did the same as you. Look at my photos in my profile. A word of advice, don't rush. You will regret it later. The floors took me three or four months and just weekends. I'm at the body work stage after putting the body back on the frame, watch Eastwood videos if you don't know about fillers. These cars have a ton of curves, so they show everything. Keep the updated photos coming.
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  17. With any type of valve (dash operated or the under hood petcock type) I think I'd want coolant in the heating circuit-especially if you run antifreeze in your system. That will reduce the probability of corrosion, and since the valve is only on 1 end of the circuit, unless it seals 100% you're probably still going to have coolant in it. I turn mine off under the hood in the spring, and on in the fall. Sometimes over the summer I'll move the valves on all my old stuff so they don't seize up. Just my 2 cents.
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  18. So probably like a lot of you I haunt craigslist and more recently facebook marketplace looking for gems and keeping my thumb on the pulse of junk prices. I see the usual cast of decent looking trucks ruined with chevy motors and camaro clips that people want 10k for, and rusted out beaters worth 2500 that list for 5500- usually no juicy part-outs or reasonable parts trucks. but- I found this grille for reasonable and fingers crossed I’m supposed to go get it on monday! It’ll go in the attic until I get around to body work but I’m stoked on the find
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  19. I thought about buying a bore gauge but naw I got a nice big engine stand instead...I have a sickness for buying acquiring tools.... I needed it for assembling a DT moly block motor this summer. Running out of room with tools this big.
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  20. Sure, that's the reason you like it . I believe you.
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  21. 2014 was the year of overhauls: the Blue Bomber heater+interior, the JD 425 engine, the Saturn engine+brakes+steering+transmission, the Subaru engine+steering, the bathroom shower plumbing...those were all unplanned projects that gave me more time to consider this old Dodge rebuild after it kinda pooped out on me in May. I tried to restart it the other day, it ran for 3 seconds then quit, probably fuel-fouled the spark plugs. After further review, I plan on pulling the motor that has been in this truck since maybe the 60s and figure out what is wrong with it...if it's fixable, I'll do the repairs and get it looking nice; otherwise, I'll have to switch over to one of the spare engines I have accumulated. So the first step was to get the truck into position closer to the house cuz I'll probably be doing most of the work outside anyways. Not wanting to rut up my yard, I employed the 425 and a tow rope to jerk the beast out of the ground that it has started to sink into, then with the help of a lady friend, we guided the thing into place. Let the fun commence!
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  22. this does not bode well for the stalled 230 project:
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  23. Thanks Frank for another different idea but finding one of those in Australia will be just as hard as the A833 overdrive
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