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    Those Running 3.73 And a TF w/ LockUp.. What's your highway Driving Like?

    Most of the Mopar gears are about 9% change between them, except 3.73s, which are 5% up from 3.55s, and 4.8% up to the 3.91s, so about a half a step. And so, it is the one gear that I have never actually run.. In the Mopar manual trans game, the gears are about 39% spread apart which equals...
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    Front suspension height

    After all that, then this; When you are backing up with the brakes applied, the LCAs will migrate forwards compressing the Strut rod bushings. If you happen to be coming off a drive-on hoist and turning, Contact!, watch for it. I just trimmed my fenders, and could then run 245/50-15s on 8s at...
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    Exhaust manifold gaskets

    OP; Have you ever tried installing three individual gaskets simultaneously? With the brake booster in your line of sight, and the power-steering box cramping your room?
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    Carb help * the famous debate and 2x different cars

    with the 600, as lean as I ran it, it was a lil like making love to my wife; she likes a lil tenderness before getting to it. But that carb was only for cruising with. It went on in the morning just before we left, and came off right after supper when we got to our destination...
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    Coolant in cylinder 8 on 318

    That's something I wouldn't have thought of.
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    Carb help * the famous debate and 2x different cars

    @junkyardhero nailed it in post #2 I wouldn't put a 600 V-sec Holley on anything bigger than a 273. Ok wait; I tuned one of those buggers lean and it made 40mpg Canadian on my near 200psi 367 , cruising 75= 1850 rpm, in overdrive, so there's that. But it sucked in standard tune on same...
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    1972 340

    If you are serious about installing Alloy heads, it behooves you to study it out. Smarter men than me have said that with a straight swap to alloy heads with no other changes, your engine is likely to lose power. They say that this is because the alloy heads suck heat out of the combustion...
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    PCV VALVE LOCATION

    Whatever you do, do not run the engine without some form of CC breathing else the pressure will wind it's own way out. If yur lucky it will just blow the dipstick out. If yur really unlucky it will blow the rear cam-plug out, and then, to fix that, you gotta drop the trans.
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    Coolant in cylinder 8 on 318

    Check the head then, they have been known to crack. To pressure test the head, you sorta need to take it to an engine shop which has a fixture to do that quick and easy.
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    Those Running 3.73 And a TF w/ LockUp.. What's your highway Driving Like?

    Thatt thing got the beer-keg on it? Which would make it a 9/1 injected torque brute, lol. By the math, that would be 1985 rpm, lol. I'm sortof looking for one of those; an early boxy regular cab/2wd/swb, one, with a reasonable body, to transfer my HotRod 367 into, which won't die. I had a '92...
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    Those Running 3.73 And a TF w/ LockUp.. What's your highway Driving Like?

    Listen, I know some of you are gonna hate me for saying this, But I once got my HotRod 367 combo up to 32 mpgs. and it still got into the 12's with 245 tires, spinning most of the way. This is not a brag. This is a statement of fact. and it was running 3.55s with an A833d and a GVod behind...
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    Low fluid ?

    Going downhill with very low oil-level, could easily do that, as whatever oil is in there sloshes to the front of the pan, leaving the filter sucking air. Fix your dipstick! The correct oil level is about at the parting line between the pan and the case. If you pull the dipstick tube out, you...
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    New to Me 1968

    The only way to get 340 cubes out of a teener at 3.94 bore is to use a 3.48 stroke. For reference; My Zero-deck 360, with alloy heads, and running the pressure up into the zone of 185>195 psi, makes more torque than my 68 Barracuda chassis can handle, but it will burn 87E10, at full-timing...
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    Engine dies, but turn the key off and back on it fires right back up

    When all else fails remember; voltage is pressure/amps is flo. You can have full voltage into a device, yet the device won't work cuz there are just not enough electrons able to pass into thru or out of the device. This fact has frustrated more than a few shade-tree mechanix. What I mean is...
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