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306 hits | 49.24 KB | Posted: 11/22/11
Can't say I know DNJ bearings, but they're American made and came in at 28 bucks for the whole set.
(Posted in: Crank polish & Main bearings)

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267 hits | 68.39 KB | Posted: 11/22/11
Torqued in the mains in three stages, ending at the 85 ft/lbs spec'd in teh manual. Twirls beautifully. Even remembered the rear main seal.
(Posted in: Crank polish & Main bearings)

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342 hits | 40.96 KB | Posted: 11/22/11
That's as clean as these pitons are getting. Cleaned the carbon out of the lands with a busted piston ring and everything got washed down with throttle body spray and steel wool and a tooth brush.
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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398 hits | 57.82 KB | Posted: 11/22/11
Eight pistons done in less than an hour. I'd forgotten how much I hated cleaning pistons. Higher than a kite on those fumes, so I cut the garage heater and I broke for lunch.
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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353 hits | 55.32 KB | Posted: 11/22/11
Talk about happy campers. The gaps on the new rings prove this bore is well within factory specs !
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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404 hits | 69.72 KB | Posted: 11/22/11
Not one of the old rings were busted, but some weren't staggered properly. Mahle is a name I know and respect for piston rings, and at 24 bucks for the entire set, I'm happy !
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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371 hits | 79.94 KB | Posted: 11/22/11
Couldn't find my whipped, 25 year old band type piston ring compresser anywhere. Canadian Tire will loan this tool kit free to anyone willing to plunk down a hundred dollar deposit(for three days).
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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365 hits | 65.15 KB | Posted: 11/22/11
What a treat this is going to be compared to my old, whipped, missing compresser! Just can't justify buying another one this late in life, since the last time I used one was back in 96 ?
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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547 hits | 71.39 KB | Posted: 11/23/11
Cleaned piston ready for new rings, in box to right. Mahle instructions further right and the ever present factory service manual on the left.
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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491 hits | 69.32 KB | Posted: 11/23/11
New rod bearings to be installed and seven more to go. Grease bearings, submerge pistons upside down in oil and ready to install.
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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401 hits | 73.02 KB | Posted: 11/23/11
Eight pistons in, 16 con rod nuts torqued to factory 45 ft/lbs and cam bearings lubed with assembly grease.
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488 hits | 82.18 KB | Posted: 11/23/11
Comp Cams lube all over the lobes of the new RV cam. A long water pump bolt inserted into the cam to use as a handle. You have to steal the woodroffe key out of the old cam BTW.
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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457 hits | 64.54 KB | Posted: 11/23/11
S.A. Double roller timing chain set installed over top the MP tensioner, which goes on EVERY smallblock I build. The Canadian stealership beat everyone at $33.00 for the MP tensioner. Advance came in at $35.00 for the timing chain set.
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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435 hits | 58.91 KB | Posted: 11/23/11
I cleaned each lifter bore thoroughly and then lubed them up with assembly grease.
(Posted in: Pistons and rings)

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412 hits | 37.4 KB | Posted: 12/2/11
(Posted in: Unexpected oil pan)

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233 hits | 51.63 KB | Posted: 2/13/13
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257 hits | 45.68 KB | Posted: 2/13/13
(Posted in: Carb)

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413 hits | 16.11 KB | Posted: 2/23/13
Walker 43676 is less than $6.00 and gets you from the back of the axle to the rear bumper in full 2 1/4", with a turn down.
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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358 hits | 5.31 KB | Posted: 2/23/13
Here's the stock M-body cat. It starts out at a full 2 1/4" and even gets almost all the way to the muffler EXCEPT for the last three inches, which neck down to pea shooter size 1 7/8" to fit the stock M-body muffler. Prices range as low as...
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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365 hits | 13.21 KB | Posted: 2/23/13
Sure it isn't mandrel bent, but it'll get you over the axle in 2 1/4" instead of stock 1 7/8" and for as low as $11.21. Walker 43633
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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415 hits | 23.92 KB | Posted: 2/23/13
Hush Thrush, Dynomas or just plain Walker 17713. Turbo style 2 1/4" muffler with the correct M-body inlet/oulet offsets for under $20.00. Just a smidge shorter than stock.
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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472 hits | 12.98 KB | Posted: 2/23/13
Less than $75.00 gets you a Canadian Y-pipe with no pre cats that gets you from the manifolds to the cat in 2 1/4" pipe. Walker 40430
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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413 hits | 10.19 KB | Posted: 2/23/13
This little piece clamped to the top of your tailpipe, over the axle, and slips into your rubber hanger bracket attached to the floor. It's shorter than a stock M-body piece to allow the thicker tailpipe to tuck up higher. Walker #35125 for @ $1.39
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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395 hits | 44.54 KB | Posted: 7/14/13
This last three inches of the cat pipe is what you lop off. The cat pipe has been fully 2 1/4inch I.D. all the way up to the muffler, NOW it necks down to 1 7/8 inch pea shooter size. Uh uh, cut it off.
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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405 hits | 45.25 KB | Posted: 7/14/13
Another shot of one of the restrictions in all later M-body's exhaust systems.
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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580 hits | 78.35 KB | Posted: 7/14/13
Weld or get welded the 10 inch extension of full 2 1/4 inch exhaust pipe onto the back of the cat pipe, where you just lopped off the 3 inch long piece where it restricted the pipe down to 1 7/8 inch. This also makes up for the slightly shorter than ...
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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278 hits | 11.68 KB | Posted: 3/8/15
Weedy original one piece 1.75 tailpipe part 45614
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320 hits | 70.25 KB | Posted: 4/30/15
You can see the restriction has been cut off and a 2 and a quarter inch extension welded onto the back of the cat pipe.
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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337 hits | 76.49 KB | Posted: 4/30/15
Not rocket science to add 10 inches of bigger pipe and lop off that three inches of 1 and seven eights restrictive pipe. It allows you to run not only any 2 and a quarter inch muffler, but also a later model B body tailpipe, which fits perfectly.
(Posted in: Exhaust)

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741 hits | 63.21 KB | Posted: 12/8/11
(Posted in: Initial pics)

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636 hits | 76.38 KB | Posted: 12/8/11
(Posted in: Initial pics)

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(Posted in: Initial pics)

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262 hits | 54.7 KB | Posted: 7/3/13
This ! little stud is set into the plastic rad overflow at the factory and from then on it starts to rust solid to the threads of the nut holding it to the rad support. Unless you're very lucky the stud will spin with the frozen nut and you've wrecke...
(Posted in: Overflow tank stud repair)

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257 hits | 49.69 KB | Posted: 7/3/13
This simple 1/4UNC20 bolt and a couple of washers and matching nut are al that's needed to fix the overflow tank stud for good. It's 1 1/4" long if you're wondering.
(Posted in: Overflow tank stud repair)

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275 hits | 41.37 KB | Posted: 7/3/13
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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263 hits | 41.82 KB | Posted: 7/3/13
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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405 hits | 49.92 KB | Posted: 7/3/13
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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280 hits | 78.64 KB | Posted: 7/10/13
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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227 hits | 78.04 KB | Posted: 7/10/13
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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227 hits | 74.94 KB | Posted: 7/10/13
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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234 hits | 76.9 KB | Posted: 7/10/13
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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384 hits | 84.48 KB | Posted: 7/10/13
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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289 hits | 85.55 KB | Posted: 7/10/13
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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225 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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210 hits | 79.71 KB | Posted: 7/4/13
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)