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Especially with the most forgiving carburetor ever made

At this point I'm pretty sure all these people are JYH himself and we are just watching a puppet show

The whole thing depends on the style of radiator you have. Earlier radiators have a large top and are intended to be filled to just above the tubes. These don’t have an external tank because they shouldn’t puke anything at all unless they get way too hot. Only need a tank if you want to race...

You can also disconnect the bands and take off the tailshaft housing and then hit the tail shaft with a hammer and the guts all slide out together.

I love the hose taste. A real delicacy

I stick my head under the faucet and slurp. Works just fine for me.

Orthodox technique

This question is ridiculous and unanswerable, because the LSA and overlap are not independent. End of story. If you want to talk about valve timing, there are good questions

Just make sure the bearing clearance is good. I think the factory spec is 0.0005-0.002” or so. I remember mine being around 0.0015”

I have the 16:1. Love it.

My crank looked similar. Guy at the machine shop said don’t mess with it. Realistically you gain nothing by polishing it and risk messing it up

Yes. Three way cats deal with HCs, CO, and NOx. The first two need to be oxidized, the third needs to be reduced. Oxidation and reduction need different concentrations of oxygen, requiring both rich and lean conditions. That said, if eliminating HCs is the goal (because of the odor), you only...

There is almost no sulfur is modern gasoline I was about to say, go drive down to the port of long beach and learn where LA smog really comes from. Oil refineries, ships burning bunker oil, many thousands of trucks….

Same here, been running a 90* off a 67 val 273 on my 5.9. Fresh gaskets and getting the bolt real snug did the trick for me.

Given how I tend to make decisions, I'm pretty sure my brain is actually down there.