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After you've drilled a hole, slightly larger than 1/4", through the center of the "crater" left by the offending stud, you can feed the bolt and washer through the filler neck using the old British Leyland wire trick. Drilling the hole slightly large...
(Posted in: Overflow tank stud repair)

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Using washers on either side of the plastic spreads the bind and probably wouldn't leak (it's not critical anyway as it's not a pressurized tank), but I gooped around the nut, leaving just the final 1/2" of threads exposed.
(Posted in: Overflow tank stud repair)

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Did I lather the nut and exposed bolt threads in anti-seize ? You betcha ! That overflow tank's nut will never spin on me again ! Why is this important ? Because these are NLA and almost everyone in junkyards has already spun and ruined itself alread...
(Posted in: Overflow tank stud repair)

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I mounted this remote transmission filter in front of the passenger's front tire, on the 86 Fifth Avenue. Plenty of unused real estate there, in the wind stream, and well protected behind the front bumper. The hoses go straight up, over the bumper sh...
(Posted in: Remote/aux transmission filter)

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Here's a shot with the spin on filter off the housing. You can just see two of the three bolts that hold the filter housing to the front of the right wheel house(ahead of the passenger's wheel).
(Posted in: Remote/aux transmission filter)

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This shot shows the view from inside the front passenger's side wheelhouse (like you were the front of the tire). There's the three mounting bolts/nuts holding the filter housing, from the back. Hanging just below is the bottom of the filter.
(Posted in: Remote/aux transmission filter)

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the hot transmission fluid is coming to the rad cooling loop from the front most fitting on the trans, to the fitting on the right side (in the pic). We're upside down so it is coming in to the passenger's side rad fitting via the 3/8" polyarmou...
(Posted in: Remote/aux transmission filter)

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There's the hose coming from the rad cooling loop, sneaking along under the rad, through the core support (no drilling required, plenty of room). From there it's routed over the bumper shock into the "IN" nipple of the remote filter. The next hose co...
(Posted in: Remote/aux transmission filter)

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This hose complete's the circle, coimg out of the other side of the stacked plater cooler, routing through the chin spoiler, then through an existing hole in the lower rad support (I enlarged) and clamping right onto the return line which will take t...
(Posted in: Remote/aux transmission filter)

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The best transmission cooler in the world won't be very effective if you don't get some wind blowing through it. This stacked plate design (B&M Supercooler knock off) is fully 11" X 7" X 1 1/2" thick. More importantly it's fully centered in the passe...
(Posted in: Stacked plate transmission cooler)

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This must be the 6th or 7th time I've mounted a trans cooler on an M-body and I'm getting better at it each time. I pride myself in not drilling or self tapping anything on. Instead I use existing bolts on the body to hold the strap steel and sheet m...
(Posted in: Stacked plate transmission cooler)

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Here's the driver's side top corner of the cooler being supported by a 90 degree bracket "nutted" to a bolt that holds on the hood latch.
(Posted in: Stacked plate transmission cooler)

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Here's a better shot, from upside down, looking up from under the bumper at the driver's top bracket of the cooler "nutted" to one of the hood release bolts already there. I just used a 5/16UNC-18 Chrysler fender/body washered nut, worked fine.
(Posted in: Stacked plate transmission cooler)

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I'm particularly pleased with the driver's side lower cooler bracket mount. I used one of the body bolts that hold the upright core support and some strap steel bent past 90 degrees (pic doesn't show that) from the Lincoln install (or even a car or t...
(Posted in: Stacked plate transmission cooler)

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227 hits | 79.1 KB | Posted: 7/4/13
Last mount was the passenger's side lower bracket. I simply twisted strap steel 90 degrees allowing it be bolted to the bottom of one of the plastic headlight buckets using one of the stock bucket bolts. Cooler fully secured in four places, centered ...
(Posted in: Stacked plate transmission cooler)

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This pic was shot upside down from under the bumper. By relocating the passenger's side horn over to the driver's side of the center core support, you make enough room for the huge stacked plate transmission cooler (there it is in the right side of t...
(Posted in: Stacked plate transmission cooler)

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3/8 inch hoses connect from the in-rad cooling loop to 3/8 inch I.D. polymer coated, high copper content Polyarmour steel lines. By the time they rust coal burning electric cars will be long forgotten.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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The 3/8 polymer coated lines are double flared and nut straight onto fittings that adapt the stock 1/8NPT 27 out to the new 3/8 inch lines, at the transmission
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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With a tappered punch or a piece of the new 3/8 inch line you can stretch and coax the stock transmission line clips to accept the bigger 3/8 inch trans lines. The new line snapped into place with a satisfying ting.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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289 hits | 44.29 KB | Posted: 7/13/13
The stock trans line holding strap, at the front of the engine, was even easier to modify and mount the 3/8 inch line with.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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292 hits | 59.84 KB | Posted: 7/13/13
Here is a better pic of that stock clamp out of the car and modified to accept the larger 3/8 inch trans line. Not rocket science and it makes for an almost stock looking install.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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351 hits | 41.25 KB | Posted: 7/13/13
These fittings allow you to screw into the stock transmission supply and return ports and adapt you out to 3/8 inch lines.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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This is the only other stock transmission line clip and it holds both lines as they pass between the motor mouny and the oil pan. The triangles in the middle used to be rectangular. That is all the filing I had to do to get them to accept 3/8 inch li...
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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On older M bodies the rad cooling loop fittings are already 11/32 inch. If you want to get fancy you can move up the 1/32 inch to these 3/8 nipples that screw into our stock 1/8NPT27 threads.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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One more shot of how well they simply clipped into the stock mounting clips.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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411 hits | 62.04 KB | Posted: 7/13/13
I did some clearancing around the base of the front trans fitting, with a sanding roll, but it would have fit without it. A stubby 5/8 inch wrench made install easier.
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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Why go to larger 3/8 inch Polyamour lines ? Apart from my 28 year old rusty lines being due, I wanted a 44 percent fluid capacity increase for the lines. They now carry that much more fluid exposed to cooler under car winds
(Posted in: 3/8 inch transmission lines in Polyarmour)

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Even a marginal 6 X 9 speaker will outperform the best 5 X 7 in the world. I'd had ENOUGH of those terrible factory 5 X 7s in the rear parcel shelf, so in went the Sony Explods !
(Posted in: 6 X 9s to replace the rear 5 X 7s)

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The loan of Mike's new air nibbler made short work of the minor amount of trimming it takes to fit real 6 X 9s into a Fifth Avenue's rear parcel shelf !
(Posted in: 6 X 9s to replace the rear 5 X 7s)

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It's almost as if Chrysler knew we were going to do it. Didn't have to trim the insulation at all !
(Posted in: 6 X 9s to replace the rear 5 X 7s)

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Nowadays modern 6 X 9 tweeters and midranges protrude upwards quite a bit. I made 3/4 inch spacers in MDF as I'm told it's less hack than plywood or 2 X 6s and is supposed to conduct sound better, The studs allow quick changes each time you, or the c...
(Posted in: 6 X 9s to replace the rear 5 X 7s)

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You can just make out the Canadian Roberston head, square, wood screws holding that MDF adpater in place, under the parcel shelf. I've always mounted the 6 X 9s underneath the shelf for ease of installation, better fit and to keep them out of sight o...
(Posted in: 6 X 9s to replace the rear 5 X 7s)

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Nyloc nuts make sure vibration never loosens the speakers, yet it allows easy speaker replacement whenever you blow the 6 X 9s up
(Posted in: 6 X 9s to replace the rear 5 X 7s)

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Up here in salt country I decided to scope the condition of the 29 year old brake line that runs front to back. Like that round bolt head there in the pic ?
(Posted in: Front to rear brake line)

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Two 51" polymer coated lines and a 40" unit fit perfectly from the proportioning valve all the way back to the axle hose connection. Use the 40 in the middle and everything is reachable.
(Posted in: Front to rear brake line)

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That large fitting screwed into the proportioning valve is what stops most DIY types from replacing the lines themselves, because it's different than what comes on the pre-made polymer coated lines you get at the parts stores.
(Posted in: Front to rear brake line)

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Everytime I strip an old M-body or each time I'm in a junkyard, I pull out the side cutters and score a proportioning valve and all the fittings. That loose fitting will allow me to make the lines up ahead of time.
(Posted in: Front to rear brake line)

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I managed to get the entire front to rear line out intact and in one piece. The stealerships will often charge a King's ransom to replace this line. I stashed this template high up in my patio rafters until I'm done pre-making three more lines.
(Posted in: Front to rear brake line)

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With the thousand dollars you save doing this yourself, you can afford the 30 dollar double flaring kit in the background. I've cut off the inverted flare on one of the 51 inch pre-made lines and you can see that I'm about to slip on the original lar...
(Posted in: Front to rear brake line)

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The first 51" replacement line bent to mimic the original line. No tools required as 3/16 inch high copper content polymer coated lines are easy on the fingers. This takes you from the proportioning valve, with the new fitting on the line, to th...
(Posted in: Front to rear brake line)

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274 hits | 81.82 KB | Posted: 2/17/14
I lather the fitting and the line under the fitting with Permatex Anti-Seize. Then it gets shot in undercating or rocker guard. Then gets lathered in greasey RustStop23, available through NAPA. Maybe, just maybe it'll make a nother 29 years
(Posted in: Front to rear brake line)

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Three new polymer coated lines and two female unions didn't break twenty dollars and I already had the 30 dollar double flaring kit, so for under twenty bucks I've saved over $1,000.00 compared with some stealership estimates......or more !
(Posted in: Front to rear brake line)

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Wilwood casting
(Posted in: Front to rear brake line)

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Boosting a car the other day and my neg clamp came off with the jumper cable. Closer inspection showed my 29 year old original was cracked in half.
(Posted in: Battery ground strap custom)

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The 6 gauge original wire was green with corrosion and it's skin was peeling.
(Posted in: Battery ground strap custom)