Recent content by junkyardhero

most ignition problems are vacuum leaks.

there's no cheap or easy way to put a front steer rack on our cars that doesn't end with the vehicle being basically undriveable on the street due to the resulting geometry.

swapping spindles from side to side only changes the location of the caliper. if you swap the joints side to side you could make it front steer but it twacks out the ackerman and geometry. some did that back in the day on drag only cars with super limited suspension travel but it's not...

*blinks slowly*

the comet was just a mellow fun little car, and behaved a lot like a early cuda with a 273 commando minus the brakes and handling. sounded cool and seemed to rev to the moon. the tiger was an entirely different beast. it was green and he called it "the alligator" because if you didn't pay...

my buddy had a early comet with a 260 that had a solid cam with a little 4bbl and three on the tree. fun little car that handled like a coal cart. he also had a sunbeam tiger with a 260 that was built to some shelby spec. that thing was a ripper.

pay no mind to the man behind the curtain...

@Jim Lusk paging mr. lusk mr. lusk to the white courtesy phone please.

man, that looks like it was running that way for a good bit. the crank bearings indicate poor maintenance intervals, but the cam bearings look pretty typical for magnum. those things seem to be made of gorgonzola and puff pastry.

you silence! some of us don't adhere to the gregorian calendar and instead mark the passage of time in seasonal themes. soon green bearing season will be here followed by "over heating! help!" season... but first we must endure the bleakness of oil bypass and hei upgrades!

*looks at calendar* ohhhh baby! *rubbs hands together* been waiting all winter for it!! yesssss!!

i prefer the term: dedicated cheapskate, thank you.

okay. it looks like you got the wrong pitman. there's only two sizes of manual steering sector: big 1.22 and small 1.11 A's, B's & E's got the small sector, C's and Vans got the big sector. there is no changer over in 73 like the power steering. manual is its own jam. so if you're running...

yup. just like that.

extended oil change intervals? hung a chunk of junk that dropped in to say hello from a nearby neighborhood? collapsed or weak lifter and it just beat it to death? hung a valve momentarily and jammed it? the fickle spins the wheel of mechanical fate.