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charlies website has pics and stuff. www.rustyhope.com

The ford restorations sites have tan medium brow and dark brown. Also try restorations specialties.

Hmmmmm. Was coroplast a MOPAR item??? I know I had a GM car that had Coroplast as divider trim for the trunk to back seat panel. But I haven't seen it used on any Mopars..........

How is the movement in your breaker plate? could it be hanging up causing a timing situation.

When I was looking, I ound about 4 or 5 vehicles locally that had them. They ranged from 75 at the upullit to 175 for one complete with linkage that was sitting on the shelf at a recycling yard. With the price of scrap these days, I'm sure that these vehicles are becoming scarce. Look for Volares and Aspens if you go yard crawling. If wilcap has a adapter for that cheap, you're likely gonna be able to the t 5 route much easier. Although with GM parts oldwoolie will not be happy.

Good to hear Hernando is in exploration mode again.

I replaced my flex tube with a short length of steel tubing cut in half. I offset the ends and spliced in a loop of neoprene tubing to take up for engine movement.

Similar year 6 cylinder powered chevy vans and 1/2 ton pickups were also equipped with that same transmission. If you finds one make sure it comes with its shifter mechaniasm. Because 4th gear was 1 o 1, they decided to put the OD in the third gear slot. the shifter does the work of selecting the 1, 2, 4, 3 pattern. I believe there is a lot of info on the /6 board regarding those trans. They were available in several versions cast iron aluminum, long and short tail. There was another installation article on another mopar board, I had it bookmarked but its on my old computer. do a search for A833 OD.

Google Brian's Powergiant. His web page shows the procedure and discusses which trans style to use. They put one in a late 50's truck behind a 230. http://hometown.aol.com/erlihemi/PwrGiant.html

Ron I have been dealing with a rusty tank. I replaced my three fuel filters after having a stalling problem on my trip to Va. The other thing to check is the screen in the fuel pump. Pull the center bolt on the bottom chamber and open it up. Thee is a screen in there which may be partially blocked with crud. Also disconnect the rubber hose on the frame side of the pump (suction side) and blow some low pressure copmpressed air back through the line. There is an Oillite intank filter, the air flow will also blow the crud out of it. then check the flow from te pump. Disconnect the line at the carb and direct the flow into a clear container, a 20 oz soda or water bottle works well. Dow disconnect the oli wire and have your better half crank the starter. Watch the pulses of fule coming from the pump. Count twelve strokes, that should yield between 8 and 12 ounces of gas in the bottle. If its thee you chould be good to go, any less indicated flow restriction somewhere.

I have been using the AVE brand of Rust paint on my Studebaker. I have found that it scratches easily and does not adhear well to automotive aresol primers. Several spots have pealed off easily. I buess I should have added a hardener. I will touch up scuff and then shoot on a satin clear coat to see how that works.

Hey Don, I don't see what looks like a GPS. I do see what looks like a programable independently driven Odometer. These are failry common in TSD rallys. they allow you to dial in the same odometer calibration as the car that layed out or measured and times the corse segments. The may even have a comtputer that calculates the time speed distance deal as you drive. An early version of such a device was a halda speed pilot that was basically a road driven clock, whe you put in the rallys speeds, it would drive a clock that you matched to real time to stay on time against the rally timing.

Well down here scrap steel is bringing about 19 cents a pound. So when you get it stripped sown to a shell you still could be looking at over 300 bucks in scrap value. It is getting out of hand here. Our little local pennysaver paper had about 4 advertisments for folks buying up "unwanted cars" to about 20. Seems aybody with a pickup truck and trailer is in the scrap metal business. I wnet by our collection yard the other day and there was line about 1/4 mile long waiting to cross the scale. pick up two a day thats 3500 a week..........Hmmmm I gues I will get those new tires for the old trailer.

Is this where we get into the discussion of the difference between quick and fast??? As in faster is really slower because it takes longer to reach the faster speed. So is a close ratio box faster than a wide ratio box or is not a wide ratio box actually slower while being able to go faster??????

Are you tearing down the whole barn or just the delapidated portion on the front??? NY state has a program where old barns, particularly post and beam structures which were built from first cutting timber, can qualify for rehabilitation grants. They want to keep as may of the old barns standing as they can. I have a 28 x 27 (nice measurements) 2 storey, I may be writing a grant application for shortly. They don't even need to be on working farms, the historical folks get the heebie jeebies whne you talk about razing them. As a matter of fact a fellow here in town went through a two year process trying to get his old one torn down. Finally he had a bull dozer accident while excavating his new pool, that renedered it unrepairable. It came down and they put up a very modern looking 3 car garage. I miss seeing it.

Basically coils are coils. Just make sure it is not a internally resisted one. Most old style oil filled coils are built to operate on 6 to 9 volts, which is why most 12 V systems have a balast resister to drop the voltage going in to that range. You might want to check out the selection at Tractor supply company.

Hey Don, take it easy on Norm. We have photographic proof that his car is driveable, left the driveway and the neighborhood, mingled and played well with others, as apparently did Norm. Remember a journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step. It may have been a baby step but it was a step made. Just think, if we had driven the 600 miles each way there would have been 22 cars there and % wise most would have been p15's.

why not use a 12 V jumper pack? they usually have a cigarette lighter type acc plug. Mine will run a radio about a week on a full charge. It would probably run bitchin betty (recalculating, make the nearest safe U turn) for a good long time. Jus tneed to charge it overnight for those long road trips. a splitter and your cell phone/cd player is in business also.

I do believe the factory mounted weather striping to keep out noise moisture and dust. Probably a good idea to refresh them if you are troubled by any of those elements being in places you don't want them in.

My cousin had a 57 plaza 4 door sedan. Not much difference between 57/58 some trim details and of course quad head lamps for the 58. the tail lamps were a bit different also, 57 had the vertical lens the 58 replaced the vertical lens with a chrome spear and the lamp went to a round unit at the bottom of the fins.

57 fins had a curved portion on the top 56 were an angled straight line.

Depending on how and where it is cracked, a good wleder with a decent mig set can probably get it fixed up pretty well. I have a couple welded psoita on mine ad it has held up for 7 years so far. Grind clean, "V" the crack, drill a hole in each end to relieve the pressure and stop the crack and weld over it.

Don't have one but I do have experience with lots of hondas. My first was an 87 Civic Si hatcback. It got well over 35 on the highway but since gas was under a dollar whocared. I drove 44 miles a day, a fillup of the 12 gallon tank was 9 bucks. and I could get a week and half from a tank. Next was my 94 Accord 2dr. This had the 2.4 liter Vtec (variable valve timing) Engine, with a 4 speed automatic. This car got 33 highway at 70+ mph. My daughter had a 2.2 liter 93 Accord 4 door with a standard that gotbetter than 35. She and her friend took a trip and got over 425 miles per tank (about 14 gallons) before that she had a 88 Acura integra 5 speed that got over 30 going back and forth to college. She still has the 94 Accord, and still gets in the high 20's on her 35 mile round trip stop and go commute in Florida. car now has 154K, and uses 1 qt of oil between changes. My father had a 90 Civic AWD drive wagon with the 1.5 engine and he was getting about 37 with it. The fit is a 1.7 V tec engine. My borther is a service manager at one of the local Honda dealers. he says he has heard no customer complaints regarding the fit except for one guy who is dissapointed in its power. We have been considering a used one to replace my wife's Subaru, but there aren't many around as it seems no one wants to give thier's up. In the mean time I will struggle along with my VW Jetta wagon that gets 35 on the highway. I am going to be making a grill blocker for it to clean up the air flow on the front end. There is way to much grill opeinng. I can cover the top grill, to make it a bottom breather, and pick up 2 or 3 mpg on the road.

Actually, last year, I thought we were the party, and some of the regulars crashed.

Who from this august group is planning to attend the Plymouth Grand National event in Detroit??? I know many of us are't members of the POC but it hasn't stopped us before. It is a 410 mile trip for us to Auburn Hills. through Canada.