Recent content by Señor Ding Dong

Well, this is what I’m trying to clean up. A lot of sketchy splices and fires waiting to happen. And this engine is likely temporary, I’m planning on a mild build 360 in the future, so having everything labeled and safe for the next time I engine swap is kind of why I’m even thinking about this.

Yeah, I’m going to stay to the factory colours, and I have the diagrams, I just feel like and future work would be made easier if I had clear labelling. That way I wouldn’t have to refer to wiring diagrams. My concern is that trying to write on 18 gauge wires is going to be microscopic, and I...

I’m looking at trying to clean up the wiring in my 66 Dart, but only a few circuits need new wiring. I’m just replacing a few wires, removing a few suspect spliced-in wires, and just trying to route and bundle them in a more logical fashion. I’m wondering what everyone’s preference is regarding...

Turns out it was any one of a number of things, or a combination. A previous owner spliced two wires going into the bulkhead connector, badly, (I’m not sure why they’re spliced in the first place), so that was a tenuous connection, the wire from the solenoid to the starter showed continuity, but...

Yeah, it starts perfectly every time if I use a remote start trigger wired directly to the terminals on the starter. And a brand new relay. I have discovered some weird wiring things tonight, and think I’m about to go down a real bad wiring rabbit hole. A wire through the firewall beside the...

The wire that’s supposed to run from the bulkhead to the solenoid is disconnected, but there is a wire through the firewall directly to the solenoid, assuming a past owner decided to bypass the bulkhead for some reason. I’ll have to check and see if that’s got continuity?

As far as I can tell, yes. Everything else works. There is some suspect wiring at the bulkhead connector, some things don’t seem to be wired the same as in my wiring diagram, so it makes things a little tough.

So I recently swapped a 1971 la318 out and a 1974 la318 in to my 1966 Dart. Haven’t changed any wiring, but I’m having a starter issue. When I turn the key, the relay clicks, but nothing else. When that happens, the interior lights dim, the fuel gauge drops back to E. battery is healthy, I...

Hey, so for anyone wanting an update, I’ve pulled the intake/carb, water pump, and valve covers, and that’s as far as I’m going to go for that. There were no visible leaks around the water pump, but when I pulled it I could see it had been leaking around the bolts, so I had to clean the bolts...

I haven’t had it running, but the seller videoed himself running it on a stand. Right now it’s got the intake pulled off, water pump off, and it’s on a stand. FYI, I was off a little on the compression. You guys all had me second guessing and went back and looked at my notes. All cylinders...

That’s a good idea, I do have a wifi scope that’ll work. There is a build-up on the piston tops that I can see just shining a flashlight in the plug holes. How obvious are the markings on most pistons, would it show through some build-up?

Why do you say that? I wasn’t too hung up on the actual number, just that it wasn’t 90-100 like the old one, and that they were all fairly even.

Well, that’s what the sensible side of me is saying, but I feel like once I start to dig in, it’ll balloon into something much bigger. A lot of, “Well, since I’ve already got it apart…”, types of statements. The less nit-picky side of me says to just bolt it in and drive! I know that actual...

I have a dilemma, and I need advice on which way to go. I had a 1971 la318 in my 66 Dart, bone stock 2 bbl 318.i was going to do some upgrades, but I t was tired and I picked up a 1974 318 to drop in. The 74 already has been swapped to an edelbrock 4bbl intake and carb, so I was going to just...

I wasn’t aware you could mount a v8 on a /6 k member, I just assumed it had been swapped. I’m guessing you’re right though. Any detriment to that? And thanks for the heads up about the manifold. I’m not at home, but in pics on my phone it doesn’t appear the heads have air injection ports, so I...