Recent content by John12377

Well I tried to buy a new PCV Valve but what O'Reilly said my car called for looked nothing like the one I have. Also, the gentleman at the counter said as long as the valve rattles it is ok. Is that true?

I was going to take the plates off but after I removed the screws in each one I couldn't get them to budge so fearing I would do more harm than good I put the screws back in and left them alone

That's the stuff. They say it's non toxic too.

I bought the heavy duty Degreaser at Harbor Freight. It's $9 a gallon and dilutes at a 20 to 1 ratio so for ten bucks I can fill my parts cleaner twice.

Mine too, I'd never done this before and I thought mine was all one piece they were on so hard. I had to hit it with a tuber mallet just to partially break the seal. Of course I don't think mine had ever been rebuilt and it has sat idle for 20 yrs.

I put the small parts in chem dip for a couple days and soaked the larger parts in kerosene. The kerosene didn't do much so I ran it through the dishwasher. That helped a little. Then I found a guy selling a brand new parts washer from Harbor Freight for 30 bucks. That thing is awesome. I...

When I got the Slant 6 engine running there was gas pouring out of the carburetor so I figured it was time to have it rebuilt. After a phone call to the carb guy my neighbor recommended and a quote of $175 to do it I decided to give rebuilding it myself a shot. $48.99 later I had my Holley...

I have a 1965 Dodge Dart 270. I posted a picture of the slant 6 engine and many of you commented that I should consider upgrading my master cylinder to a dual Reservoir cylinder. Unfortunately comma the auto parts store close to me does not have anything listed for the Dodge Dart in a dual...

Thanks to everyone who commented on my other post asking whether or not everything was hooked up properly. Last night I went ahead and changed my spark plugs, condenser, and points. Unfortunately, the points were not correct so we just cleaned the old ones up a bit and put them back on. After...

Gotcha

Mine is a 65 so it's very similar to the 66

Is your goal to make it a much faster vehicle or a better running vehicle? I personally just wanted to be a smooth running vehicle with a little more power when I want it.

Would it be better for me to go back to a 2bbl or am I okay with what I've got here?

It is a 4bbl Holley List 8007 on an Offenhaiser manifold. I feel like the guy who had it before me was trying to maybe make it a faster vehicle but with the slant 6 it seems to me like a waste of $. Maybe not.

I guess? I really don't know. What you see is what you get. Is that a bad thing?