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2004 Beetle fuel pump. Clean car, promises to be a pain in the butt to keep in service.

I remover the valves on the 67 drum master to work with the 78 Cordoba disc and calipers. The plan was to replace it with the 67 disc master, but it's working fine for now. I may never change it. The Cordoba caliper is 3 inch, I think.

The whole 11.75-disc/caliper/spindle setup from a 78 Cordoba works good on my 64. I think it works on the 61 as well. Do check that before jumping in the water. Other related stuff. I used the dual master from a 67 drum car because it was on the car from when I was still using drum brakes. The...

See if it has a little removable tin bucket with a gasket. If it does, leave the bucket and gasket bolted down.

This symptom can be caused by "any" amount of negative tow out on an otherwise good setup. Is there "any" resistance to steering the car then the steering wheel is "dead straight ahead" while the car is idling on jack stands under the lower control arms? Any at all?

No reason to use the right stuff when you got all the wrong stuff right there.

My Dad had a 413 long ram about ten years ago. It was resistant to available 93 no-lead. So, we set about changing a few minor things. At 6 degrees initial at 600 rpm, it still stayed on the idle circuit and didn't get into the transfer slots. Then we turned our attention to tuning the...

95 Deville front brakes. Can't wait to get rid of this Crapillac. More room for another Mopar, something that stays fixed when its fixed. So, today I worked on garage space for the future Chrysler.

The video is correct about several things for sure. It's big. And does have plenty of power. And does transmit more road than big Fords. The big fords are the easiest cars to drive that I'd ever driven. I don't fault them at all. But lots of body lean. It doesn't seem to have anything to do...

These GM HEI distributors work well in the Mopar big and small blocks. And, they accept the 7-degree while cranking retard module. All service parts are at the auto store up the street.

The 1959 GM and Ford cars used an A pillar that slanted forward. A most deadly sin as seen in the vid. Fortunately, Chrysler didn't do that.

Wandering. Just my experience here. I've never found a new steering part to be tight. When I install them and turn them individually, they always turn freely. I had to learn the details of the steering boxes just as I had to learn the cause and effect of the steering geometry and alignment...

Harmonic balancers are on my don't install used list, unless I removed it from the car and it's a known good item. Or I have no other option.

They generally don't have much in them when they arrive at my house after years of hibernation. Maybe 10 psi at most. Just enough to not be worried that they have been sitting at atmosphere for years. I've been sucking the system down, emptying the compressor of oil, flushing everything else...

It was total here, clear sky. But it didn't result in darkness at ground level. The big deal was the effect it had on the surrounding landscape lighting. Contrast like I've never experienced before. For about 4 minutes the conditions were perfect for working outside in the yard, like cutting the...