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Re: Restoring Rusty
alright I just put a 7 PSI pressure test on the engine (heads, block, intake) chose 7 just cause it's a bear to pump that little guy up, plus 7 is in the geeen zone, so we'll see if it holds
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Re: Restoring Rusty
Checkout Champion too, I got a 4 core monster for my 383 from them for a hell of a price, and it's a high quality radiator too.
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Awesome thread, I read the entire thing in anticipation of picking up an 82 SWB 2WD on Friday.
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Thank, you I love my two wheel drive short bed, hope you get a good one, they are fantastic to wrench on, plenty of space to get in to everything, I would say they are like playing with Legos but it's more like Duplos, ha ha
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I have the same Wideband you do in the Miata. Super useful. |
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so glad you brought that up, strength in numbers, I hope more and more guys with old trucks like on this forum realize the potential of these AFR gauges as they come down in price and take their tuning to a whole new level for both fuel economy and performance
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C a n dy
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Re: Restoring Rusty
Is that your new sleeping quarters, behind the cardboard box?
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Re: Restoring Rusty
I tend to put turbochargers on everything I own, so they aren't even optional, but honestly i can see a huge amount of value even without forced induction, particularly with a carburetor. If I were staying with a carb it would likely be the very first thing I did.
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Re: Restoring Rusty
Now I'll go make my own thread
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Re: Restoring Rusty
Who delivers on Sunday?
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US Postal Service, believe it or not. If you are an Amazon Prime member, you get two-day free delivery. Order on Friday, it will come on Sunday. USPS delivers it.
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mandatory stare and compare, old rad and new one, the rows in the new one are wider although both rads have two rows
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gave the new aluminum radiator a quick dip, just cause it's new don't mean it will be good, sometimes they leak, this one did not
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I told you we will have one....
the rubber radiator hold down thingies did not quite fit, so we improvised |
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I can not stand the hand slicing dime a dozen hose clamps so got these T-bolt ones and love them
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and here she be all installated
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Re: Restoring Rusty
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Breeze Liner worm clamps will accomplish the same thing but they are around the same price and don't look near as nice.
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well after two years of fast at it looks like the Greg may finally be slowing down, the replacement water temp gauge arrived yesterday and I took a nap instead of installing it right quick, ha ha, that or it's hibernation season
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FINALLY the Green Quartet is back together, yes they all work, and yes I am completely out of fuel, ha ha
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Wow that is awesome! Wonder if that's nation wide? That right there might be worth having prime. I always gripe at my wife because she does the free trial and forgets to cancel.
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I give you the world's dumbest invention, radiator hose lube, this is excellent if you want your hoses to slip off the inlet or outlet tubes no matter how tight you make the hose clamps
you can find these right next to blinker fluid at your local parts house |
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When the bead on the tube and fitting ends is properly formed and the clamps are sufficient for the task it causes ZERO problems and the hoses don't end up bonded to the fittings. If that stuff is petroleum based you will have issues. Quote:
It also gives you access to "included with Prime" movies and commercial free TV shows kinda similar to Netflix. I paid for this season of Dr Who and The Blacklist on Amazon Video but there are a lot of included videos.
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