classiccarjack

Your preaching to the choir, I would be thrilled to just find a complete car! LOL

Exactly, the taped wedge must be kept tight or the hole will get wallowed out.

How Awful! Modern American parts are going to pot. I switched from Moog to Raybestos. If NOS is available, I try to buy it. It's certainly not getting easier.

Is this a straight 8 or a 251? I am a little derailed here. I bought some engine parts and I may have a intake/exhaust matched set still together. But I bought them, I didn't inherit them.... PM me if you like, I can sell for what I invested, not looking to make a buck here.

I use a little bit of heat, and a lead or brass hammer, tapped by a decent sized hammer. I rest the soft hammer on the tie rod end with the castle nut flipped upside down and flushed with the end of the stud. Then I strike the soft hammer with the hard hammer to prevent marring the ends. I usually use a typical reasonable sized ball peen hammer to begin with, and work my way up if needed. I have had great success in "NOT" destroying the tie rod ends this way.....

My mother's house is off of Moro Street. She retired from KSU and will probably spend the rest of her days there. We thought about buying a house in Waterville, but then I am finding opportunities elsewhere. I would like to somehow manage buying a home in Kansas and keep my residence in San Diego. I can't stand the extreme anti everything american politics in California, but I have health ailments that make me have to live with it. I can visit Kansas for certain times of the year without consequences, but San Diego heals me back up quick. If I do this right, I can have the best of both worlds!

Perhaps I could plan a fun road trip! Hmmmmm

I would love to experience this someday. But more importantly, I would love to see the northern lights. Alaska has some beauty that I really want to see before I expire!

Good luck, I wish you with success in this mission. Every time I have tried this, it seems that there is always at least one cylinder that results in a tragedy. I just freed up a 237. It was bored .060" over and never ran. After 30 years, two cylinders stuck. I did get them to free up, but the compression rings on both cylinders broke. I know that I have a set of Harley Davidson Evo rings kicking around here somewhere, but I can't find them.... Once I do, I will be good to go! I am fascinated by the fact that this big six is a 3.4975" bore! Only cool to us Harley builders I suppose.... LOL

I was thinking the exact same thing. I have never seen a crack carry over from cast iron into a steel plug, doesn't seem plausible. If my hunch is wrong, and it is truly a freak crack that did affect the freeze plug, use Lock-N-Stitch. Welding repairs can fail, then you have a even bigger problem to fix. I had a "welded repair" fail on a 1938 Cadillac 60 Special that I restored. I did have some luck in saving the block with some serious toxic epoxy from 3M, but I don't want to do that again. I got turned onto Lock-N-Stitch from Turlock, CA about a decade ago. I have repaired several blocks with it. The worst was a 440 with a 7 inch crack that went into the freeze plug hole. After each repair, I carefully ground down the stitches and ran a Air Needler acrost it. After a repaint, every repaired block that I have done is 95% unnoticeable. I have had no failures and highly recommend the product. Not only are welds not as successful, they look really ugly and you can't hide them..... Has anyone else tried this amazing product?

I wanted to follow up with you to see if you had a chance to begin repairs. I really hope that you get back on the road soon.

It seems that finding good rims is a challenge. The following weekend coming up,. San Diego is having the Big 3. Last year I got a great buy on three 16" rims. If anyone else is going to be there, keep an eye out! Sometimes you can find Mopar stuff. But it is a needle in a hey stack.... The only wheels easily found are Artillery Wheels, I often wonder if they have gold in the steel? At least they seem to be priced that way. LOL

That car is WAY nicer than the rusty incomplete hulks that I have. What is the car parked behind it Wild Steve?

Too bad your in Florida, I have several 230's for sale here in San Diego..... I know of a guy whom put a Slant Six in a 1939 Dodge Truck. But I lost contact with him.... I would have gladly asked him if I could have taken pictures for you.

Did you get an opportunity to free up your Hemi?

I probably should have scrolled to the end. I hope that my be-lated post wasn't offensive. I just want to help if I can. I hope that your carbs are finally dialed in. The car looks AWESOME!

After I dial in the linkage, I fine tune idle screws with a vacuum gauge. I slowly adjust them to achieve the highest inches of mercury that I can achieve. I go back and forth with each carb until no more twerking can be achieved. Every multi-carbed engine that I have built has ran well by doing this.... I will have to do this with 3 carbs on my 1937. Your car is looking great so far, I hope that my battery gets me to the last page... LOL

Tuttle puddle is a great place to go relax and fish. When I was a kid, I used to come out when the tubes were fully open. That way when the splashback came over the fence, I would let it push me into the parking lot. Out of the hundreds of times I had done that, not once did I ever sustain an injury! I must have been tough or really lucky. LOL I used to net for small fish, then drive up to the mudflats to get me some catfish. Chicken liver worked great too..... I miss the summers there. I hope to meet you there sometime.

I was born and raised in Manhattan KS! I try to drive out 1 to 2 times a year to visit my mom. San Diego has been good to me and I wish that the folks out here were more kind. No one waves at you out here. Well, that is if it isn't their middle finger.... LOL If I drive one of my old 1930's Mopars out there to see my mom, I will try to let it be known. That way if you would like to meet, we can swap some stories and admire our vehicles.

The gray metallic and chrome go well together. This car is going to be sharp!

I have been using Kroil for a couple of years. I ran out last weekend and tried the new WD 40 rust penetration product. It enabled me to free up a stuck 237 after soaking it for 4 hours... I may have a new tool to add to my handy chemical list.... I will try it on a headless 230 I have. I will try to remember my results and post. I am sorry to get off subject here. I am so thrilled to hear that you got your car running. I can't wait to hear what happens next!

I totally can relate to this. My mom's car was a 1966 Dodge Charger and my dad's was a 1968 Super Bee 383. No seatbelts and I sipped the old man's beer.... Today, I have never shared my beer with my boys and don't drink around my kids anyway.... If I had time off to drink, perhaps I wouldn't seem to be such a goody two-shoes. I do recall that the old man had time off with money to burn. Was it really that much affordable to live in the 1970's and early 1980's? Just saying...

Neato! The alcohol seems so wet that it wouldn't work, but it did....

Nothing can define a automatic transmission better! LOL

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