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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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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).
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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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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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224 hits | 59.39 KB | Posted: 7/4/13
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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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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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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214 hits | 81.29 KB | Posted: 9/18/14
Rear shock bushings in urethane
(Posted in: Urethane shock absorber bushings front and rear)

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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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213 hits | 90.15 KB | Posted: 7/5/13
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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213 hits | 63.96 KB | Posted: 4/5/14
I made up the wire above the one gauge to go from fender body ground to cylinder head engine ground and carry on to the 120 amp Denso alternator's case stud ground. The old unit below looks pretty poor by comparison IMO.
(Posted in: Battery ground strap custom)

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213 hits | 53.35 KB | Posted: 9/16/14
(Posted in: Urethane front leaf spring bushings)

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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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208 hits | 71.76 KB | Posted: 9/18/14
Enough urethane shock bushings to do both sides of the front shocks. I will detail the install under shock replacement elsewhere. Just wanted to show the part numbers here. Also to remind you that conventional rubber bushings fail long before the sho...
(Posted in: Urethane shock absorber bushings front and rear)

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205 hits | 65.69 KB | Posted: 1/25/14
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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205 hits | 67.69 KB | Posted: 1/25/14
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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204 hits | 55.48 KB | Posted: 4/5/14
Pretty pleased with the one gauge unit and with plenty of extra to stretch it over to the wrong side group battery if I ever have to.
(Posted in: Battery ground strap custom)

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Kit for a 1986 Fifth Avenue. One inch sway bar, with anodized repair plates and all bushings and anodized cupped bushing washers. You are on your own for bolts and nuts.
(Posted in: Front Urethane Sway bar bushings)

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198 hits | 53.94 KB | Posted: 9/16/14
Even with less than 55K original miles on the car, it's still 29 years old and so are its bushings. The price was right and they look like a piece of cake to install. Identical method to the urethane transmission mount just easier
(Posted in: Urethane front leaf spring bushings)

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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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197 hits | 50.06 KB | Posted: 9/16/14
Used these before on the 83. They work great and no fluids harm them.
(Posted in: Urethane leaf spring isolating pads)

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196 hits | 86.96 KB | Posted: 9/16/14
Imagine my surprise when I opened the box and found GM coil spacers. I'd have laughed except they sent them....twice. Got my money back and I ordered from a company that spoke better Mopar
(Posted in: Urethane leaf spring isolating pads)

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Got a pair of used stem style brackets off a stripped junker. De rusted and painted them up, chasing the threads and replacing all the hardware.
(Posted in: Front Urethane Sway bar bushings)

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187 hits | 55.54 KB | Posted: 9/16/14
Right box but......
(Posted in: Urethane leaf spring isolating pads)

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186 hits | 70.97 KB | Posted: 9/16/14
According to a mechanic buddy these stems break often. So Im staying ahead with a pair from the junkyard in case I do break them, because I know of no new source to get them from
(Posted in: Front Urethane Sway bar bushings)

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186 hits | 79.08 KB | Posted: 9/18/14
Got the new urethane stem or bayonet bushings installed. Here is the one under the fuel pump on the passengers side. Note the bayonet stud and nyloc nut threads are lathered in anti seize.
(Posted in: Front Urethane Sway bar bushings)

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Granted the sway bar bushings themselves were not that bad. At 29 years old and wanting the full effect of the urethane bushing conversion, I swapped in the new ones, There is the old one down the bar waiting for me to cut it off.
(Posted in: Front Urethane Sway bar bushings)

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183 hits | 58.19 KB | Posted: 9/18/14
What an incredible difference ! No more body roll or front tire squealing in corners. Steering wander is gone too. Almost all the clanging over speed bumps is gone too. In spite of the superior handling the ride hasn't suffered. If anything I would s...
(Posted in: Front Urethane Sway bar bushings)

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I had replaced the missing outer bushings last year, but again, wanting the full effect of the urethane conversion, I swapped in the new urethane bushings. BTW they had a better center dowel than the originals too. Everything was lubed with their sup...
(Posted in: Front Urethane Sway bar bushings)

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181 hits | 59.11 KB | Posted: 4/5/14
Local truck place made me this longer 22 inch one gauge unit up for me for 18 bucks. That is a deal in Canada. I spec d it longer because I may get the wrong group battery and have to stretch it one day.
(Posted in: Battery ground strap custom)

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181 hits | 57.88 KB | Posted: 9/18/14
See that tiny circle of rubber in the bottom left of the pic ? That is what was left of the upper bayonet bushing above the K frame on one side. The other side was simply MIA
(Posted in: Front Urethane Sway bar bushings)

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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)

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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)