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I'd like to tell you a story and then let you decide whether it applies to this discussion or not. When I was a kid (I'm a really old guy) there was a well-known automotive journalist named Tom McCahill who for years had a monthly column in Mechanix Illustrated magazine. He was one of the...

Re-stating what MidnightSwinger said, just remember that if your engine is still covered under the manufacturer's warranty, you've got to use the grade and weight of oil specified by that manufacturer or your warranty will be void. If you have a newer engine that is supposed to use 0W-20 oil...

Lee lives about 15 miles away from me, and I've met him a couple of times. He's been over to my house and I've been to his. He has been extremely helpful to me in correcting problems on my '62 Valiant resto-rod. Super great guy! And his dad Carl is a Mopar freak, too.

I'm getting ready to lower the body of my '22 Dodge Bros. touring car onto the chassis, but I experienced a major brain fart: I forgot whether the longitudinal splash pans have to be installed first or not. Even worse, I forgot how to install the splash pans. I am going to have to make inquiry...

Try scratching a test piece of bare metal deeply with 80 grit and then see if one coat of primer will level it out so it looks nice.

Have you ever tried a 4-1/2" or a 9" angle grinder with a non-woven paint stripping pad? They work quite well. The 9" grinder is much faster than the small one, but it is quite heavy and will tire your arms out.

So did the engine have other problems besides the internal water pump? I was thinking it looked fairly nicely made, but I have been wrong once or twice before. Insofar as bulletproofing a POS is concerned, why for example do so many people go to such trouble and expense in order to bulletproof...

Thanks, guys, for correcting me on the 3.2 liter motor, and for the good information on the 2.7. Too bad, though, that there's no way to bulletproof it. What could the Chrysler engineers have been thinking when they designed the engine that way? Certainly they could have found the room for an...

A friend of mine has one of these engines sitting disassembled in his shop for the usual reason: the internal water pump failed, coolant got in the oil and ruined it. Looking at the block, crank, rods and pistons carefully, this looks like it was basically a nicely-manufactured engine. The...

In Concord, California, where I grew up, during the 1950s the Western Auto store was located in the Foskett & Elworthy building, which was the first brick and masonry building in town: 25. Foskett & Elworthy Building | ConcordHistory.Com For many years before that the building housed the only...

YY1 wrote: 904's also don't seem to be as sensitive to that kickdown pressure issue, which can burn up a 727 2-3 shift real fast. YY1, do you mean if the kickdown is adjusted to shift into third way too soon? Or something else?

I pretty much completed the chassis on the Dodge Bros. touring car and am now going back to work on the body.

Got the rear axle and differential sandblasted and ready to move inside for painting as soon as I round up a couple of helpers. Got the steering box and the rear springs installed. The brake operating control rods are detailed and ready to be installed in the rear axle assembly.

I'm sorry, 69cudaownr, I just couldn't help it. If you encounter a restoration shop that is not registered with your state's bureau of automotive repair (most states have one; find out if he is before you agree to anything), and/or claims he is not required to register with the agency because...

Sorry if I'm being a Nattering Nabob of Negativism, ClassicCarGuy, but there are several problems with hiring a restoration shop. The first thing is that they always seem to want to enter into a "specific car at a specific price" type of agreement, which is where the restorer grabs and names a...

I got the engine detailed and installed on the Dodge Brothers touring car restoration. Now I've got to do the rear axle, springs and brakes. That is going to be a lot of work.

I've got Magnum Force forward struts:

I installed 4 of the USCT torque boxes on my '62 Valiant resto-mod. USCT doesn't advertise that they fit '62 A-bodies, but they do.

The view from a Dodge Bros. car (see Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby):

That contour sander looks nice, and I would like to try one sometime. Right now I need to strip and paint the rear axle, driveshaft, differential and brakes on the '22 Dodge Bros. My plan is to use a 9" grinder with hook-and-loop type synthetic abrasive pads. That 9" grinder sure is heavy...

Painting the front axle, rear engine support hoop, bell housing, steering rods, front leaf springs and some other small parts. Also, here's how the frame turned out after spraying it with black semi-gloss urethane single stage, and the Mighty Dodge's valve train, for all you DB **** freaks out...

I disassembled the front suspension and steering on my Dodge Bros. car. That DB solid I-beam axle is quite a forging. I left the spindles in the axle because the kingpin bushings are fitted so nicely that I didn't want to disturb them. I'm pretty sure I can paint the axle OK with the spindles...

I sandblasted and epoxy primed the frame of my Dodge Bros. car.

When I re-did the wiring on my old Mopars, I was unable to find the original type of connectors for the turn signal switch and steering column harnesses, so I used Molex Mega Fit SR "free-hanging" 8-pin plug and receptacle connectors: 0766500187 Molex | Kits | DigiKey

I gave my old 1922 Dodge Bros. touring car a half-vast cosmetic restoration in the 1980s. It's a good runner and I like to drive it around some, so I kept putting off doing a full resto, but last year I decided it was looking a bit long in the tooth, so I am doing a frame-off restoration. I...

4 doors because they have better ingress for the fairer sex. (I would like to get a partial credit because "ingress" almost sort of rhymes with "fairer sex").

I've got the '77 B200 Sportsman camper van on the lift today due to big "clunks" from the front suspension when going over bumps and around corners. I found that one of the front sway bar brackets was a bit loose where it attached to the lower control arm, and had moved over into contact with...

Worst Cars of the 1960s: The 1962 Plymouth (Savoy/Belvedere/Fury) - A Car You Hate to Love - YouTube

I like them. I was a teenager when they were new, and I remember that '62s with the 361 V8 were quite fast. Also, '62 was the year that Chrysler combined the factory service manual for Plymouth and Valiant in order to save money.

New-ish leather captain's chairs with heavy-duty frames and extra padding and bolstering in the front. They are by Qualitex, and the model is "Innovator".