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Over the weekend got all the pick up welds done and today got some epoxy primer on it for now, the bare steel was rusting up within a week,and the weather forecast says rain for the next 4 days

Did you actually remove the flex plate to inspect near the bolt holes? if not, some times you can pry it forward and backwards,side to side while some one holds the crank still,listen for slight ting noise or any movement... does the engine back fire or miss generally with a tapping sound...

Always on defrost will be no vacuum at the switch, could be a broken vacuum line or a leaky switch,bad check valve, or bad vacuum resivor......by default it goes to defrost

Quickest and easiest was to check the fuel gauge is to pull the 1 wire connector behind the gas tank, un pluged it will go all the way one way and grounded it will go all the way the other was, if gauge still does not work.....( I don't have a wiring diagram in front of me) but I think all the...

I have stripped the pinion in one and then the ringer in another and final straw was when the auburn possi spring plate broke and chewed the cones. Got a 8.5 in it now for the last 2 years and it is still holding after I replaced the auburn unit with the race one....but it is not all the cars...

Probability recomend removing the tack if you are not that good of a solderer you don't want any little blobs falling and rolling around,and causing other issues. I just added new solder blobs under where the tabs for the plug sit because on mine they wore down and the wavey plate did not hold...

Here's some picts of my extra tach set up for v8...move the peg over and I believe it would be for a v6

did some pickup welds on the bottom of the frame, and time to flip it back over and work on the top

I am looking for more info as well so far I have done the rear lower controle arm brackets, first pict is the frame that is in my car now ...c channel is rippling the next picts are the new to me frame

On my car with the rally gauges (assuming that is what you have) I had the same type of problem, the volt gauge was reading about 1v lower then the bat and alt, I removed the instrument cluster and cleaned all the push plug contacts, installed and it was still low, removed again and then removed...

Re: boxing in the frame Great tip for the washers...( I love the plasma cutter) I can make the washers any shape. The factory welds do suck....i think when they welded this frame there was a wire shortage..lol I was looking in to the tubular a arms....do you happen to have the website for the...

Re: boxing in the frame I was worried about the c channel bowing so I bought 5 lengths of 3/4 square tube and was thinking of putting some on top and some on the bottom. Did you do anything with the front control arm mounts?? And the rear upper mounts? Or just washer them? The steel I got for...

Re: boxing in the frame :bump:

I did my standard trany swap back in 2001 before you could buy the proper stuff... I used the bw t5 off a camaro with the hydraulic clutch and still had to cut and reroute and reweld my headers. Now I have the tko 600 in my car. I am sure some company does sell the proper stuff now..(u can buy...

Assuming the engine rebuilder knows what they are doing...Have you put a mechanical oil pressure gauge on to see actual oil pressure? it must be something that is bolted to the engine eg. fuel pump (broken spring, have seen that on gm 305 and 350 years ago) distributor gear /shaft going up and...

Re: boxing in the frame new to me frame with some body mount holes repaired and lower control arm reinforcement's added

starting the fun of boxing in the new to me southern frame and strengthening all the weak points. any advice on this job would be greatly appreciated. I will be removing the trany cross member mounting brackets on both sides and going all the way from front to back of the c channel then...

setting up carbs is a fine art. lots of things need to taken into consederation, primary pull off ,secondary pull off (if it has one ) fast idle screw, tempature where you are (to set the electric choke) idle mixture screws, if you are not sure ....take it to some one the does ......it will be...

Got 1....now the fun really begins cleaning, boxing it in and strengthing all the weak points , painting, then the big swap Thanks to all for the help!!

Adding a relay is a good idea then just to protect the computer from if the pump or wiring if it ever screws up. And also it does not send electrical noise (feedback) back to the computer. Adding the extra wide ban gauge inside the car was the best thing I ever did...know I can see exactly what...