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Hickory

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  1. My favorite memories was driving off the road to pass convoys and the desert land being as smooth as the road
  2. So for the deadline I had car was at the Nationals and drove around. I did not drive it to the show just all over the fairgrounds. I should be able to drive it to the Longley dodge show aug 5th
  3. Over 8000 cars, 88000 in attendance I think it did rather well
  4. I did that too. Thanks for the clarification. I once lived in Clovis New Mexico and know all about the dust and tumbleweed.?
  5. Since I had to figure out most of this on my own(with no info out there) can I mark all of my posts as solutions and rise my rankings ?
  6. I took my 180 tstat and gutted it and reinstalled it. Water now flows good. Temps are more even. 180 at water outlet and 200 at the back of the engine. Im going to leave it like this till break-in is done.
  7. Ok so I'm still struggling with the temps. I did put a 160 tstat in it. I know that's not a fix. I checked the water pump design and I have come to the conclusion that it only circulates with the thermostat open. No water bypass and the water only goes to the center of the centrifugal pump vane from the lower rad hose. The rest of the water sets outside the paddle wheel as I call it. What's your thoughts.
  8. My car was there also. I didn't get many pics due to phone issues. Here is a selfie.
  9. Last summer I removed the radiator and flushed from both ends for about 2 hours, that's after running flush through the system for 4 hours. Water was clean and flowed right out. I may do it again in a month or so.
  10. I'm not liking my temp reading. So the block is clean as a whistle and the rad flows good. I have a 180 thermostat with a small hole drilled in it to circulate. The water pump physically looks fine. The temps are taken with my thermo imager. 230 at the rear, 220 in the middle, 190 at the front. 180 at the thermostat housing and hose to the radiator. 150 at the radiator core. The water pump is a straight vain pump with no water bypass or heater hoses (no heater), I feel there is not enough flow. There is no water distribution tube or nothing like that. It's a primitive design and trying to think of a way to improve it.aybe 160 tstat with a small hole drilled in it?
  11. Car runs. Have a leak of course. My upper water outlet tube somehow cracked during I stall and I didn't see it.
  12. Man the 6v starter is struggling with the tightness of this engine. Would hooking 12v ruin my generator
  13. Man the 6v starter is struggling with the tightness of this engine.
  14. Needs tweaking to run on its own but we have smoke.... She fired up for a couple of seconds on all six. Need to charge the battery to play with it
  15. Also mounted the horn and put oil in it. Don't want a stupid accidentally turn over without oil.
  16. Tonight the oil lines, fuel lines, wiring harness, flywheel and clutch, and the carb linkages and cables.
  17. A little more progress today while Manning the smoker.
  18. I hope that they are good. Just starting the bolts with sausage fingers was fun
  19. Thank you to dodgeb4ya for rope seal idea. This was not fun with the block out of the car.
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