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**UPDATED 7/16/24 with a link to a time-lapse video publicly posted to my YouTube channel that I made at 5 am this morning. The quick video shows a birds-eye view of most of the rallye dash bezel removal process. the rallye dash removal from a Mopar A body. Watch carefully to see the point when...
First, some history... on why I started doing this myself and why I am turning it into a tutorial. It is a story that will probably sound familiar to many of you, at least at the beginning...
I bought my first car at 15 - a rusty-as-hell (and conveniently rust-colored, Burnt Orange, I think)...
I finally got around to pulling the wiper pivots on my 67 Dart Convertible.
I have a water leak in the general area so I figured I would start with the pivots.
I learned everything not to do on the driver's side (and the least accessible)
The pass side was a piece of cake.
I did not take any...
This chapter is optional for building an engine, that's why it has the A suffix in the title...
In this chapter I am going to explain the different timing chains available on the small block Mopar... In the last chapter I showed you how to install the camshaft and camshaft thrust plate...
For anyone interested, here are some charts that I made back in 2005-2006 of all of the Mopar SB cams that were available at that time... I collected data on the most popular manufacturers from their catalogs and online postings and went through all of the information forward and backward in an...
As you can see my heater box was a trainwreck although all of the components were there and the blower motor still functioned. While the car was being worked on when I could in my office warehouse I made detailed repairs like this in my small shop at home. The biggest challenge was "gluing" the...
In this chapter I am going to go through installing the camshaft in the block... In the last chapter I showed you how to install the camshaft... Now it's time to install the cam...
This is the next step to continue after Sections 1 - 8... If you missed one of them, you can find it here...
How...
In this chapter I am going to go through installing the camshaft in the block... In the last chapter I showed you how to determine the compression of your combination... Now it's time to install the cam...
This is the next step to continue after Sections 1 - 7... If you missed one of them, you...
Hello everyone, I'm back after a three year tour of Europe, Scandinavia, and the sub-continent... (Cab Calloway Blues Brother's quote...)
I've had some delays in getting back to the series, but am going to try to continue as I have had many people state that they are using these articles...
The other day I saw a 74 Jensen Interceptor for the first time, they were made in England and very limited production. The only thing I knew about them was they had a 440 mopar engine. I got a chance to talk to the owner, who sounded like he was from England also, and he filled me in on some...
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My mixed breed garage currently houses a 2018 Ford Mustang GT, 1966 Plymouth Valiant Signet, and 1969 Triumph TR6. Our previous garages included three Shell gas stations 1965 through 1979.
Matching numbers 71 Duster 340 built for export to Europe
Progress and journey of the build. The good bad and the different.
