I know this is actually a bad picture, you can barely read the 742 case number and the 489 tapered pinion is concealed by the crush sleeve eliminator that I machined down to make it work.
Had people tell me you could but in all the years I've been messing with them, never tried. Just never had the need to go there.
When I got my driver's license I started taking care of my sister's 65 Mudstain in turn for letting me drive. Big advantage to me lol especially on the weekend when she was gone out on a date. Anyways, for things I couldn't do, I'd take it to this guy that lived down the street from a friend of mine who did mechanic work on the side. Learned a lot from him plus I hung around the local Dodge dealership shop a lot. One day I took the Mudstain there for a tuneup after the Ford dealership couldn't get it right and the tech let me watch. He even took me under his wing and told me some of his tricks like setting the points a little wide and the plugs a little close so the car would 'drive into the tune' and last longer. Also said that it would help to set the timing at the factory spec or a bit more because it would advance as the points wore down. Stuff like that I used for years. I also looked over all the people in the shop working their butts off and thought that I'd rather do this work as a hobby and not for a living.
You can also do that with 440 low comp pistons in a 400 block. Have to take a little bit off the top if you don't want the compression too high though.
aboard!
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