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That's too cool, tell us more. Details, details!

These carbs are available on eBay all day long for 15-20 bucks. Your 4 digit model number is on the vertical, slanted flange which goes upward towards the air intake on the front, upper half of the carb body.

I've got a '56 pick-up 12V starter that I can check for numbers tomorrow, if that'll help. I've heard that putting a 12V starter drive on a 6V starter will help prevent such breakage when using a 6V starter with 12V. Anyone know if there's anything to this?

I too would be very interested in hearing about this.

I've owned a points file forever. It stays in the same pouch as my ignition wrenches. I suppose some of you younger ones don't know what those are either. Damn I feel old!

Vintage Power Wagons has new brass ones I believe. Mine is brass and also pulled out with just a tug of the pliers.

I won't pretend to know how it worked. But years ago when I was the young 'un, an old-timer told me about the clothespin trick. At the time I was taking care of a number of Ford tractors that ran all day in intense summer heat. Most of them had vapor lock problems from time to time. I put some clothes pins on them and never had the problem again. Just left them on year around after that. They were still on there when we sold them a few years later.

Just a related antidote: Many years ago I had a '63 Galaxie with the B-W T10 four speed. It busted 3rd gear and the cluster gear. I got the parts to repair it out of a '69 AMC Javelin 4-speed car.

I too have been accumulating knowledge and parts to build a modified engine, a 230 in my case. I've heard some pretty radical numbers about how much can be shaved from the block and head. But I'll probably bite the bullet when the time comes and spring for the Edgy head so I'll take measurements at that time and go from there, whatever's necessary to achieve good quench within safe clearance limits. Don't relieve the block on these. Some folks say to cross drill the cranks and some say no, it weakens them. They say instead to cut grooves in the upper bearing halves, so I don't know. The jury's still out on that for me. There are some very knowledgable folks here on modifying these engines. So be patient and I'm sure you'll hear from them. Likely you already know that there are aftermarket intakes, split manifolds, headers, etc. available too. I'm building my own headers because I want longer primaries than what's available new and because it'll be in a fenderless hot rod, so they need to look "cool" too. I also found a sweet set of new finned aluminum side covers for $50 on fleabay, likely the same ones that Stovebolt sells for $90. Thanks to a member here, I also bought a nice vintage Tattersfield intake which is just too cool. The goodies are out there, just look around. If you're able to go back standard, I've got a NOS set of Nyler replacement pistons for 218-230. I'll need to overbore some so they're not an option for me. (Looking for some +.060, anybody?) Vintage Power Wagons has just about anything you could need for these engines as far as replacement parts go. And they're pretty reasonable on most of it too.

It's even been used in Jeeps, which makes it Mopar. Like it matters.

That thing's gorgeous. It'll be a head-turner wherever it goes.

And "puting" should be putting, too. What business is it of yours what type of transmission he chooses to run?

Check this for some info and also in post #2 there's another link to much more T5 info. Hope it helps. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=273050

The letter likely came from the Department of Redundancy Department... Your tax dollars at waste.

Like you, my tastes are widely varied. If I'm just going to turn on the radio and forget it, country's the choice more often than not. I also like (mostly) older rock, jazz, bluegrass, big band, reggae, blues, older R&B and probably some genres I can't think of right now. And also like you, I can't stand the screaming, heavy metal R&R or especially rap, which isn't even music as far as I'm concerned.

Some years ago I was in the battery business and all of the batteries for old cars, such as 6V, 8V, the 29NF 12V, etc had a standard sized inset such as you describe. I don't have one to measure for you but the size you describe sounds about right.

I've got a customer whom I'm almost sure would have one. I'll check with him this week when I see him. Location would be about 90 minutes NW of Charlotte NC.

I love the first Chargers better than any of them. I once had a '67 R/T many years ago and it was as good as it gets for highway cruising. My son took his first car trip (coming home from the hospital) in that car, and he's 32 years old now! I really miss that Charger. What are the particulars on yours? It's beautiful.

Yep, I've gotten some garbage like that in the past too. You certainly handled it properly. One must always remain vigilant here in cyber-land.

They've made some beautiful cars. But that ain't one of them, IMO. Interesting though, to say the least.

No worries about Reg, he's true to his word. I speak from personal experience.

I don't like to drag up old threads w/o good reason. But does anyone have any further info as to the current status of Edgy heads and/or cams? Was it sold, etc.?

Yes, a bad connection, faulty component or anything that causes excessive resistance in the circuit (including grounds) could be at fault. If nothing is obvious, you'll just have to go through the entire circuit checking connections, checking resistance of wires and components, etc. Have you tried another flasher? Fixing electrical stuff is easy! It's finding the problem that can be a pain!

You're right Normspeed and I'll be the first to admit that I'm an opinionated guy. Heck, even as many real Model As as there are, I'd be hard pressed to tear apart and hot-rod such a nice survivor as this SD is. I'm also a HAMB member and as much as I enjoy the place, I'd tone it down a bit if I ran it. And more for some of the general nastiness that occurs sometimes than just the language. But it is a great site for those of us who love hot-rodding the way it was, before mail-order rods and billet-laden garbage wagons. But this is an awesome site too and I don't mean to offend the sensibilities of anyone here or the site as a whole. It certainly has the right to choose it's decorum and I or anyone who wants to visit here should respect that. So I'll apologize to Norm's Coupe and anyone else who was offended by that word.

You have the envy of all if you can swing it. There's no worry that a true car guy is going to get bored or just sit around the house. My best buddy sold his business and "retired" a couple of years ago. And as always, he's still buying and selling old cars and parts, working on his own projects, etc. I had to laugh the first time he said, "I don't know how I ever found the time to get everything done when I was working for a living!" I've done the next best thing for now. I quit a good paying job to get paid to do something I truly love instead. Now I look forward to going to work for the first time in many years. As has been said, it ain't work if you love what you're doing.