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| Nightmare engine build continues
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Well ive jumped serveral obsticles to get to having the short block done, now ive got head bolts poping threads, helicoiled 2 on the drivers side and now 4 on the pass side have pulled ,, 35,55,75 moly lube on arp with black silcone on threads, never h |
| 06/04/2008 09:32 PM |
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| Nightmare engine build
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I have been trying to get this motor built and keep running into snags. First i spent 2 days calling around trying to get the torque specs on the arp bolts im using and it all depends on what kind of assembly lube your using. Got all that ,Ive got crank i |
| 05/24/2008 10:01 AM |
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| oil pump drive shaft
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Good grief , i just pulled out my oil pump and looked at the drive shaft on it .It has a metal sleeve instead of plastic and the pump is a m55hv for a xbc ,the problem is that the sleeve doesnt lock onto the pump like the old plastic sleeves do. If i put |
| 05/13/2008 07:51 PM |
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| Hypereutectic piston ring gaps
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Well i couldnt take it anymore ,I listened to the cam sound bite on compcams website till i had to order the darn thing.Anyway i went to pull out the lifters on the motor in the bucket and none would come out the top.So I pulled motor and have a complete |
| 05/13/2008 07:42 PM |
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| hotrod black
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I know this has been covered before and not to use jd black, has anyone heard of or used the Kirker hot rod black its supposed to be suede Im looking at some kind of satin or suede to put on. I picked up a copy of HOTROD deluxe magazine i also just real |
| 04/17/2008 06:39 PM |
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| horn hookup
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My t bucket didnt have a horn ,so i bought a ahahahahooohga horn. I mounted it in the bed ,and was fixing to run wire when i pulled up the seat to get access to the wiring harness. It already had a set up for a horn prewired with a relay. Im kinda confuse |
| 04/09/2008 05:35 PM |
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| 39 tail light
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Hello again, I just swapped out my 39 taillights for some with blue dots and was wondering how the heck do you change the bulb if they go bad? I took the screw out of the bottom trim piece and i expected to be able to slide that up along with the lens to |
| 04/08/2008 07:09 PM |
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| T bucket kit Which is best?
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I have been thinking about selling my 69 nova , v8 s10,and crotchrocket to purchase a tbucket kit. But i have looked at spirit,total performance,and speedway motors kits and i really dont know which one to get .To be honest the spirit looks like the best |
| 04/01/2008 11:54 PM |
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