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Kid's ambitious I'll give him that. Is the engine a 216 or 235? Either way it is probably a splash lube on the connecting rods and may have poured babbit bearings. Chevy didn't go 100% to inserts until 1954 as far as I remember.

Here is what the pattern on my best friend's 3.73 10.25" looked like: Drive side: Coast side:

They may or may not, but, brake cleaner or similar to de-oil the pinion and ring gear where they mesh and use a paint daub or grease pencil, even a crayon and mark one pinion tooth and the flanking ring gear teeth. You will have to pull the hogshead out of the axle to do this.

The terms I used are right out of my 1964 Falcon/Comet FSM where I first learned about Ford rear ends (Falcon had the 260 V8 and an 8" rear end).

Depending on the gear ratio you may need to be sure it is still indexed to the ring gear correctly. Ford had three different classes of ring and pinion, hunting where every tooth on the pinion hits every tooth on the ring gear 3.89:1 was a good example, it was actually 3.888888 as far as you want to go :1, non-hunting, 3.00:1 is a non-hunting set where every tooth on the pinion hits the same 3 teeth on the ring gear, and partial non-hunting where there is a cyclic pattern and every pinion tooth hits the same group of ring gear teeth. If you have a hunting set, then it doesn't matter where the pinion teeth land, the set is already run in, if you have a non-hunting or partial non-hunting and get the gears "out of time" you will probably have a lot of noise and may end up destroying the gear set.

Jim, I had something I ordered years ago, it spent a week "circling" Baltimore. It would leave every morning, then be received again that evening. It was USPS. I went to my local PO in Newport News and was asking one of the clerks, she went and got the postmaster, who went on their system, I don't know what he did but it showed up in NN the next day.

Glad to hear that Matthew. Darth was last fully aligned in 1994 and the front tires still wear dead even.

Try explaining how a group of 16-18 year olds built a cyclotron for a senior group physics entry in a district science fair and won several awards for same, Senior Group Physics, NASA Aerospace Physics, I believe there was one other one.

I don't know whether you have gauges or and idiot light, but here is a link to the idiot light system: https://www.garysgaragemahal.com/charge--power-distribution-gas.html Here is with the ammeter: https://www.garysgaragemahal.com/charge--power-distribution-gas.html They may both take you to the same place, ammeter is the second set of diagrams. The fact that you had to disconnect the voltage regulator connector makes me wonder if your ignition switch could be the problem as they have been known to come apart. Good luck with it.

Chevy V8s were bad about wiping lobes, usually an exhaust so the engine would pop back through the carburetor.

Jim, it depended on where they were ordered from Darth was built in Oakville Ontario and has a 2 as the first VIN character. He had full US spec emissions and hot fuel handling package as he was sold in Memphis Tennesee.

Jim, I have seen a number of pictures of failed cams and lifters including roller lifters. The flat tappets I have seen show what is called "spalling" where the hard surface cracks and then essentially crumbles. Most of the lifters are being outsourced to China and I am sure if I could get one of the Chinese lifters and an older US made one (a) I would bet the US made would be a good alloy steel like 4340 and the Chinese will be a carbon steel (b) the Chinese lifters appear to be case hardened, and once the case hardened layer cracks it starts to flake off and the softer metal underneath just wears rapidly.

Southeastern Gloucester County in Virginia, there is an area know as "Guinea Neck". The speak a dialect that is mostly Elizabethan English. There is a lot of intermarriage there and definite evidence of inbreeding. Where I am living now there are a few very common last names some of whom are descended from the first settlers who came to the Eastern Shore in the 17th century.

That is it in the second picture, it looks like the vacuum nipple is on the bottom of it (great location, lots of heat to destroy the line).

Air bypass valve if it is part of the Thermactor system will be on the air pipe from the Thermactor pump (air pump) to the air pipes. Valve in the center of the diagram labeled AIR BPV is the one you are looking for.

Wow! This guy left his parking place REALLY FAST! That was the picture Jim sent of the dash and support along with other parts he salvaged from an F450.

Correct, hot fuel handling package was primarily on trucks sold in the Southern parts of the country with 460 and AC mostly on ambulance conversions. The front fuel tank is very close to the left exhaust pipe where it crosses over. The idle is raised when sitting and loading to help the big Leece-Neville alternator power the ambulance body equipment. The result was boiling the fuel in the front tank, to the point it would overflow out the filler neck.

Jim, the Aeronose parking brake pedal assembly mounts to the left side dash and steering column support, which is a big aluminum casting. Remember this one: Parking brake pedal assembly mounts on the studs visible on the casting, left end of dash.

Congratulations!

Beautiful job! 312 Y-block perchance?

Happy Easter to y'all and congratulations on your first grandchild (now you get to spoil them and send them home). My first great granddaughter just turned 2.

I actually had two of them, one I installed in my 1977 F150, the other went in my 1971 Colony Park (in place of the AM-8 track it came with).

Chrysler used a two terminal NO switch in the oil pressure tap on the carbureted 2.2L engines to control the choke heater. It can easily be adapted to shut off the fuel pump. The 460s with the hot fuel handling package have a similar switch at the gauge sender tee.

I don't think I downloaded any videos. I will look tomorrow.

Jim, I downloaded his site before it disappeared completely.