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when the fuel filler location were designed the filler nozzles of the day were of the old type (like a diesel nozzle) they were not problem like the vapor recovery nozzles are. The "taco" hood was a DOT mandate to all manufacturers. before the event of the folding hood, In a front end collision the hoods had a better than average chance of entering the passenger compartment and under enough cases decapitating occupants. due to their flat design, the real cause of the hoods bending over time is lack of lube to the hinges. The blower on always was not a defect this was GM wide feature of their "Flow-Through" ventilation system. A lame idea in my book, but........
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I don't know if its true or not but read somewhere it was to create positive cabin pressure to keep exhaust fumes out of the passenger area.
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I've had four of these 73-80 trucks that had hinges that were properly lubed by the owner. All of them had zero bends in the hood.
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If you have a set of factory Vortec wire retainers, by all means use them. I have used them many times with headers, they are great. All it takes is some minor clearancing of the header flange where the looms bolt to the head.
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As long as each lobe was on the base circle when you did it. I use the EO/IC method. Never have to pull the covers back off. |
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now gentlemen, please don't t think I am obsessing over this, though it may seem that way, all The Greg is trying to do is put off the cleaning of the engine bay, ha ha |
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LOL, you give me too much credit, mine is only held on by the two big bottom bolts with the rubber bushings and maybe one bolt on each side on top to each fender, just enuff to mount the radiator to run the engine
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I don't know much at all about it, but enough to recognize that Rich has done his homework and I'd be comfortable trying his recommendations. And that's not a slam against Greg, he's obviously following manufacturer's directions given for the combo he's running. But even on a stock motor you can bump the timing up from the factory recommended number for a little more get up and go, the question is how much. I think Rich may have studied that question a long time and has some good input. At least I think that's what we're talking about. |
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1. mechanical advance should not kick in at idle RPM, be it 600 RPM or 750 RPM, if it does it's a waste. this is when you are setting initial timing and you disconnect the vacuum canister on your distributor and plug the vacuum nipple on your carburetor (be it up top aka ported, or on the base, aka manifold) you don't want vacuum advance during this procedure 2. total advance (a misnomer for sure is really initial plus mechanical, but we call it total, ok what ever, total to me would be initial plus vacuum plus mechanical, but lets not go there, I call that one All In Timing) so anyway total advance for a small block chevy is 36* so that's our upper max, still with the vacuum advance can disconnected you get this reading whilst reving up the engine way high in RPMs like 3500 until the advance no longer advances. (when you connect the vacuum advance you can have as much as 54* of advance and that's ok, but thats a whole other discussion) so there two points to add to your toolbox of know how, this only scratches the surface but I think I am right at least on these two issues Last edited by Gregski; 06-17-2016 at 09:36 AM. |
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Yes, obviously that was far an auto, it slipped my mind you had a manual.
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First is to check what advance can you have. It is probably poorly suited. Get an AR23 equivalent (see my post about 20 posts up), or you can get an adjustable one and spend a lot of time to tinker with it, but you're just going to end up in the same place.
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and I am still trying to wrap my mind around those square holes in the hinges are they supposed to give us some manuverability in door alignment, I tried pushing the door all the way outward from the cab and didn't know what the hewk that did, than I did the opposite and pulled the door in tight inward towards the cab in those square holes and again had no idea what that did, LOL how risky is it to remove the hinges from the cab and start all over from scratch, would removing the front fender be the proper way to align these doors, if my grandpa was a car guy I'm sure that's how he would have taught me to do it, start from the B pillar aka an imovable object and work my way forward to the front of the truck |
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Those strikers you are looking at from Classic Parts are Stainless and are show grade pieces
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Mine was cracked on the door side also. Welded it with a crackerbox and small rod. Would have been better with a decent welder (machine and operator) Not pretty since I hadn't welded in a few years, but passable with a little grinding and paint.
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