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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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These fittings allow you to screw into the stock transmission supply and return ports and adapt you out to 3/8 inch lines.
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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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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 !
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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 ?
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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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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
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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.
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The 6 gauge original wire was green with corrosion and it's skin was peeling.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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)