What did you do to your Mopar today?

[thehemikid]

Couldn't hardly find, an aluminum weld-in bung for a mechanical temp gauge
bulb for my transmission pan. I did finally find a black anodized bulb extension from Pegasus Auto Racing
supplies, and in their reviews or notes someone mentioned shaving ~.010" so the nut will tighten enough
to allow the bulb to seal, and just finger tight verified that when I got it.

My plan was to take the anodize off and
weld around the hex to the pan, but after looking it over looks like an O-ring will work on it, with just enough thread left for full thread engagement to the pan. So I did that for now.

But my thoughts are, the weld idea would cut it down to just 1 item to possibly leak rather than 2 and also not allow the main body to vibrate loose.

The O-ring route is tempting, and the pan could use a spot face for the O-ring to seal better. Either way the internal female threaded sleeve portion needs to be shaves down a little so the bulb nut hex doesn't bottom first.

 

[blue_stocker]

I'm building a new S/S-type car so there's plenty to accomplish. Last night I started prepping parts for the differential; since the small pinion bearing journal was .0003" too large, I spent a couple of hours stoning until I got the fit I desired (patience pays off). Since I desired some fresh/homemade biscuits this morning, I placed the pinion in the freezer and the large pinion bearing in a tomato sauce can and into the oven it went, pulled it out after a few minutes and plopped it onto the pinion (no press required here folks, it's called thermo-expansion, works great, but watch out for the hot bearing on your skin). So today, I completed assembly of the 3rd member, bagged it and placed it on the rack until I've completed some welding on the housing. I rec'd my cylinder heads from Dwayne Porter (PRH) yesterday and I was quite impressed with his work. Let me say this, these are OEM iron heads as required by the 'rules' for my '67 combination; they were initially cnc ported by K&G Engines of Kansas, Ohio and Dwayne completed the task, installed guides, touched-up where they needed work, polished the chambers/ports and runners, accomplished the valve job and set them up as per my requirements and tested them on his flow bench. I've been familiar with Dwayne and his work for over 20 years, but having run Stock Eliminator for 30+ years I have never required the kind of work he accomplishes, until now. Mr Porter is quite the craftsman, and I am honored to finally have some parts that have his signature on them...thank you, DWAYNE PORTER, excellent job! For you numbers guys...915 castings:
Cyl #1
Lift———in/ex
.100— 75.5/61.5
.200— 150.0/111.0
.300— 216.0/150.0
.400— 264.4/178.6
.500— 289.8/198.8
.550— 290.6/204.9
.600— 292.4/208.6
.650— 292.4/212.2
.700— 289.8/215.2

Cyl #2
Lift———in/ex
.100— 75.5/59.0
.200— 150.0/111.0
.300— 218.4/148.8
.400— 264.4/179.8
.500— 291.7/206.1
.550— 292.4/212.7
.600— 291.7/217.6
.650— 291.7/222.5
.700— 293.6/224.9

 

[qkcuda]

Very nice job on the heads PRH. Any flow numbers, or are they a well kept secret?

 

[Chongo 68]

Assembly continues on the 440!

 

[Justasgood]

Took out the 383:

Put in the 505:

 

[Chongo 68]

Installed the pistons…

 

[chargervert]

I got the bed of the Little Red Express truck cleaned out. I had been using it for a storage space for the last 5 years!

 

[chargervert]

The before picture!

 

[eldubb440]

The before picture!

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I'm not sleeping on that

 

[chargervert]

Luxurious van accommodations await you down by the river!

 

[Chongo 68]

More progress on the 440 build, also started mocking up the motor mounts with the dummy motor and trans.

 

[Black_Sheep]

Getting ready to head out for the Minnesota Chapter of the Oldsmobile Club of America show. Rocking my new personalized license plate…

 

[Richard Cranium]

Luxurious van accommodations await you down by the river!

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Pete's van be like ..........

 

[chargervert]

Pete's van be like ..........

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That looks like a former elevator company van,my van looks like this!

 

[71RRHI]

Removed my tail panel and tail lights from my 67 coronet. Amazing how much dirt accumlates behind the trim. Cleaned and installed the trim panel I got at Carlisle.

Now I have to find where I put the new tailights and bezels I bought several years ago.

 

[Skytrooper]

I fixed the drivers side window which decided to get all crooked on me. Turned out that 3 of the four attachment bolts fell out. They were in the bottom of the door. Not too tough a fix. A little loc tite will prevent that from happening again.

 

[bob32268]

I took the driveshaft out of my 69 Charger today and took it to the machine shop for balancing and new U-Joints.....
Tks,
Bob32268

 

[Ray70Chrg]

Installed new a/c compressor, still gathering parts for the rest of the engine bay. A/C and heater assembly was completed years ago.

 

[moparwacko]

Lash adjustment today

 

[Dave6T4]

I put my rebuilt ( for the second time) power steering pump on my 1964 Polara. I went around the block (about a mile), and now I don't have power steering again! Very disappointing.