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Dartgame last won the day on June 7 2023

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    Chicago suburbs
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    Hard rock, all things mopar, home remodeling, live music, hot rods
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    1952 plymouth business coupe

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    been wrenching as a hobby since mid 70’s, restored two darts.
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    retired from chemical/industry sales

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  1. Just an fyi - the muscle era v8 stats fit in my 52 and work fine. Maybe for yours as well. Easy to check at a parts store. I like the robertshaw style stats, vs the cheapo's the big box stores sell.
  2. what I've used for square drive plugs is some square key stock from the hardware. Slip it into the 12 point socket that fits it and away we go. works fine.
  3. According to the mopar engines technical book, the bell housing bolt pattern is similar to the LA series (273, 318,340,360) motors, and will bolt up. There is supposed to be an offset difference on the crank flange. Meaning the position of the flange from the back of the block, so be sure to check that carefully. You may need an adapter to connect the transmission flywheel or torque converter. Or why not drop it in with the matching 904 or 727 trans ?
  4. Thanks guys, Bests info is interesting. Maybe what I'll do is measure the cc's of an old copper gasket I have. I dont want to mess up the new fel pro I intend to use. I would imagine the fel pro being around .80 will compress similar to the best which gives about .052 installed, and .080 new. I'll report findings once I get them, probably in the next week.
  5. something I've noted about DOT 5, is it can often be troublesome to get air bled out, and if you have a leaky fitting it won't "self seal" like the glycol based versions. By self seal I mean corrosion on the fittings if weeping a little. Moisture will corrode the offending parts with time and stop oozing....but I prefer the DOT5 for its non corrosive qualities. As mentioned above if a vehicle is left unused, nothing much changes in the brake system.
  6. Finally working on figuring out the compression ration for the 230 I'm building. I have two heads, one is from a (unknown year) 230 and the other is from a '53 218. I have a buret, and measured the cc's on each. Keep in mind that the 230 head appears to have been milled a fair amount, and the 218 not much if any at all. The 230 head CC'd at 74.3 The 218 head CC'd at 82.0 My plan is to mill the 218 head. Reason being is that the 230 head is in absolutely atrocious condition, very rusty inside the water passages...awful. My question is about head gasket cc's. I had read that for the 25 inch motors the cc for the gasket is around 18.5 cc. I have not been able to locate info about the 23 inch motors gasket cc's, fel pro has no info. Would it make sense to think that the gasket cc's are similar or the same ?
  7. Dodgeb4ya - that's an interesting piece of information. I'll do some measuring and check the oil level vs pivot on the pickup. However, I wont be doing that until I get the block back and ready for assembly (probably several months). I'll report back once I know something more.
  8. Thanks. I figured that was a weak point in the pickup, that could lead to low oil pressure. I found it interesting that someone had done this. Thanks for the link. I'm going to look into getting a neoprene o ring of the correct size, vs one of an unknown composition.
  9. I'm in the process of cleaning parts and so on for a new 230 build I'll be assembling in the near future. What I am doing is using the internals from a rebuilt unused 230 that was intended for fork lifts. The machine work etc is excellent but the block should never have been used. The water jackets are something akin to the titanic. The water distribution tube was a complete disaster, they left part of an old one in the block, shortened a new one and pounded it in. I got that stuff out and discovered that the block is cracked between one of the cylinder head bolt holes and a water passage. Fortunately, I have a donor standard bore 218 block, which is getting all the internals etc from the 230. On to my question - the 230 oil pick up is interesting, because whoever built it, put a rubber O ring at the joint where the pick up pivots from the "up" pipe. I've never seen this before in the three other flatties I've had apart. What's the communities opinion about something like this? The o ring appears to be a standard rubber composition. I'm concerned it might degrade in hot oil.
  10. You might consider taking the box to a radiator shop and explain what you want. They should be able to make or adapt something?
  11. If not mentioned before, drain the coolant from the block, there is either a pet cock or a drain plug near that freeze plug.
  12. You might want to take a look at evaporust. I've been using it to clean engine tins and hardware, works pretty good and washes with soapy water, and then blow dry.
  13. I have been looking at zinc (ZDDP) levels in conventional motor oils and found several brands are making them for use with flat tappet engines like ours and most older v8s. Valvoline VR1 - 10w30, 20w50, 30 weight etc. seems to be readily available and contains what appears to be the correct ZDDP level. Pricing is around 35-40$ for 6 quarts. I figure why not use it, how many times do you change your oil ? Its probably not critical to have the "right" amount of ZDDP with a flat head due to the low valve spring pressures these engines use, but what the heck.
  14. Reviving an old thread - I finally got the Oil pressure relief piston out of the block. For those interested - the piston itself is not made of really hard steel. I found it could be drilled, in a quite normal fashion. So, I tapped it for 1/4 - 20 and bought a grade 8 bolt. Heated cooled whacked it, oiled it etc., while tightening/pulling against the block with heavy washers, and finally snapped the bolt off in the piston without any joy. Fiddled around with a dremel and got the broken piece to spin out, Yeah ! Drilled the piston using an F drill bit and tapped for 5/16 coarse thread. Used a grade 8 bolt and heavy washers to pull against block casting, similar to last failed attempt. Heated cooled whacked it and finally creak !? checked the bolt, - nope its fine, heat whack, oil, tightened, creaked, and then creaked again and again, Voila ! It came out. Boy was the thing screwed, crudded heavily with gunky rusty crap. So why did I go after this thing 6 years later ? Well, that's another story.
  15. All the chain and napa stores are near me, no difference in pricing usually, but Napa can be a little higher. Advance usually offers a discount on line purchases for in store pick up. Besides Rock auto, I look at ebay and Amazon, for these two I check part numbers to be certain. Off the wall can be craigs list, surprising what you find sometimes. Often times ebay has the least expensive prices as long as you can wait for the part to be shipped. With Rock auto shipping can be a significant price difference as well. I found the cheapest place to buy a battery was Menards....similar to Home depot for those who dont know the store.
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