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I see frequently someone mention that a motor smokes on startup, and everyone jumps right to bad rings or valve stem seals. Neither may actually be the case and I will tell you why. For one, a cylinder/s that misfire suck oil up through the rings and dump that oil right into an exhaust system...

Fortunately the 325 went away, but I still have a R1200gs here. I wish it would go away too. Takes a special tool just to add oil to it.

We had a 325i convertible that I wanted to swap a small block with a 5 speed into, with side pipes, roll bar, flared fenders and big ol wide tires and a blower sticking out of the hood. Wife wouldn’t let me dangit.

Gotta take this off, so I can remove that, and be able to fix something that is actually the problem. That and it seems like every fastener takes a different tool. Good machines if you don’t have to work on em.

Don’t know if it will help you any, but maybe a bicycle brake cable would give you something to work with.

I personally don’t have a problem with China, or any other country manufacturing and selling products in the United States, as long as they don’t identify as the original manufacturer. Look at Engine Quest for example selling Magnum heads. They are very close to the original Magnum head, but...

We only had black and white the first time I saw it. No tights, I promise.

Not TTI, but I put Hedman long tube hedders on my 5.9 in less than a day by myself on the ground with a floor jack and jackstands. 2 days for hedders they better be working on it between other jobs.

It’s not so much smart as been doing this stuff since the Wizard of Oz was in black and white. :D

One of the shops I was lead at had a hanging air hose let go during the night, and since it was hanging between two cars on lifts it beat the crap outta both cars doors. (and I mean down to bare steel) Looked like they both got shot with a giant shotgun. Fuses are fine, and good safety...

Did you try pressing the stud up into it’s socket, then tighten it. Its actually common for them to turn if there is no resistance on the stud. It doesn’t necessarily mean the joint is bad. Heck, I have used a jack to put pressure on the studs before so the stud wouldn’t turn with the nut.

This is a 65 Dart Charger with approximately 700k on it. Belongs to one of our local Mopar group. 273 four speed. He has 2 273’s and keeps one built and ready for when he needs it.

I like how the tie rod caps worked out. We used them on the Wife’s 72 Dart and they fit nice and tight.

I had thermostat controlled electric cooling, but I was getting ready to add AC so I pulled it all and went with a more capable radiator and clutched 7 blade steel fan. Originally these cars had a basic circuit breaker built into the headlight switch, but they are a bi metal type and works...

Generally you’re suspension isn’t going to travel enough to expose the joint, but you are correct that there is no retainer on polys. The tie rod dust boots are the same.

A spray bottle and heat gun works too.

Ha ha, not looking for famous or YouTube money either one. Just hoping to give someone thinking of doing the job a heads up on what they might be getting themselves into. But thanks for checking it out. I wouldn’t mind a subscription if you feel inclined. Mopars4us on YouTube. I have a fuse...

Nope, I was warned just like you have been. :)

There is a distributor rotor for the factory style Mopar distributor that can help with wear and corrosion of the rotor tip and cap terminals. Napa part number MO3000 rotor is .030 longer at the tip. The shorter spark jump distance wears the parts less. You REALLY need to make sure your cap is...

I realize some think some of the stuff I tell about my life is BS. That said, I guess some people’s lives were so boring and mundane they couldn’t imagine anything else. Here’s another part of my past. I was Forman on a Ranch that my first Wife’s family owned. I rode horses and wore a 6 gun...

So familiar. One day Dad says “come on, I need your help” Short of it was this. We stopped at a machine supply and he bought 6 5 gallon buckets of 90wt oil. It was snowing and I was wondering what the hell? We pulled up to a property with an old road grader and he says “Time to find the drive...

Oh, so you are kind of new at it then.:D I started driving heavy equipment real early as we had 4x4’s, wheeled tractors, caterpillars and a road grader. We had property in the Sierras north of Tahoe, and I was the oldest, so my Dad involved me in everything. I know some of my life happenings...

All done, 40 degree AC and killer heat full climate control.

I learned how to back trailers even just with mirrors by 10 years old, so it’s funny watching people that can’t try over and over without learning anything from the last fail. They just keep doing the same thing over and over and over. I watch those. Mostly just to see how bad some of them...

Sitting out front with my after breakfast coffee watching the neighbor down the street make dozens of tries at backing a trailer into his driveway. Cars backed up waiting for him to get out of the way. Could end up being his fourth DUI if the right car comes along. Jees, I need to go find...

I just recently finished a Classic Auto Air system, and it didn’t come with a glovebox replacement at all. I just needed to trim about 1.5 inches off the lower rear corner of my original plastic box to clear the new under dash unit. The hole gave a place to put the ecu.

They normally use 2 part epoxy to seal those plugs. Kind of a common problem really.

So here’s where I stand on it after carefully reviewing your posts and pictures. For one, I don’t have a shop or even a garage to put the car and apparent large load of parts. Also I don’t feel I want to deal with, or be responsible for an engine needing a blower, aftermarket fuel system and...

All clear now. Just so you know, I would pretty much have to have the car and related parts up here. But I will think about it. Do you know what’s keeping it from running? Oh, I went back to your sale post. “Some assembly required” lol. Yea, that would have to be up here.

Kind of a can of worms question, because there’s so many varied opinions. I have to agree with the Lucas if you want a good quality product. For what it’s worth, when I ran older manual transmissions I would customize the fluid mix depending on how the trans reacted. Some work great with 85/90...