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yes, check that radiator cap, as most modern ones feel like they fit but after a few miles and warming up, they start letting coolant out the overflow tube and onto the road.
If you suspect a head gasket leak and it's not in the oil nor burning white exhaust/coolant leaking out exhaust pipes, then it can only be combustion gasses into the coolant and pressurizing the system and pushing the coolant out the overflow. Napa has a kit for like $40 that has blue fluid and tests for this. If it's happening, the fluid in the kit will turn from blue to green if anything like that is happening.
Posted on: 2012/7/9 14:18
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Is there supposed to be a picture attached here or something?
Posted on: 2012/6/28 12:59
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Re: New Quaker State Oil
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"As for flat tappets most motors today use them"
Most motors today (that aren't overhead cam) are rollers.
Posted on: 2012/6/10 2:56
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Re: Who from Ohio, got a new project?
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Damned it that ain't almost the exact truck we took to CA to get a 327 motor/tranny for my 50, and brought back to ohio. I'm from ohio, but that's not my project :)
Posted on: 2012/6/6 7:57
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Re: Leaf Springs and Shocks
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Detroit eaton spring is fantastic. They keep oem specs and blueprints around and can make a spring exact to what it was new, or you could say "i want it like stock but softer and an inch lower" and they'll knock it right out. They're a great outfit, witch MUCH knowledge, regardless of the brand of car or spring type.
Posted on: 2012/6/5 8:15
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I also have the distributor that moves the whole unit. It's a neat setup! Make sure that the two plates that hold it in the block are on right and a little lube, so it doesn't bind when you snug it down. A quick ID on the distributors is that the vacuum arm connects to a gauge with a pointer and a long slot on the outside of the dist body, while the plate moving ones just run inside a hole on the distributor body to connect to the plate.
Since there is no ported vacuum on our cars, the distributor will be very advanced when working well, at idle. A couple quick blips of the throttle and you will see it jumping around as it rotates. It's kind of neat to watch, and i like this model distributor very much for that purpose. While doing a ton of testing and tuning, i found mine had randomly stopped working as well one day. Got a new one from MM and it's been good since, although the car has a knock so it hasn't moved much.
Posted on: 2012/5/30 8:23
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Regarding your bottom two pictures, i can't tell you how many random projects i've used those on where they don't appear to fill up. The air is trapped in there and so the gas keeps going through the filter, but the air just sits there and makes it look like it's not. If you were to take the outlet line off and pump some fuel, you MIGHT coax some of that air out, but it's always been there in those type of filters for me, and never given me any issues whatsoever.
Posted on: 2012/5/14 8:21
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Re: Trans fluid change: What else to do?
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I've always wondered if putting some kind of canister filter in one of the lines going to the cooler would be effective. I have 3 coolers on mine and don't use the in-radiator one. (one long aluminum tube cooler on the frame, and two stacked plate ones on the radiator.) I've often thought about putting a canister filter in there somewhere, maybe hidden in the front area in front of the radiator where the coolers are, or bolted to the frame where the one cooler is. My worry though is that it would affect pressure someway and that might cause issues or damage to the transmission.
Posted on: 2012/5/13 12:43
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I think this is one of those things that people haven't really put effort into because it's generally not an issue for anyone. If you want more flow at low speeds, you could easily change pulley sizes, stock pumps are durable and last a long time, and are easy and cheap enough to service. The only people really using electric water pumps are racers who really feel they need those couple HP that the pump can be eating up.
Unless i'm missing something and there's going to be a shortage of packard v8 waterpumps?
Posted on: 2012/5/13 12:40
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