This car has stuff I had forget. Headlight sentinel and delays. Climate control, am/fm/8track, stereo speakers, front disc, cruise. Lots of good stuff.
Condenser! The new one might have been a decent brand, BUT the newer ones have seemed to have a very high failure rate, causing all sorts of problems. Seek out an OLD one that was replaced, or the prior one you replaced, and see if that does make things better. For some reason, the newer ones...
Epilogue: It would have been smart to take serious rust precautions for the sunroof. After 6 years, the vinyl roof is now off again (and will not be replaced), the sunroof is extremely rusty due to poor workmanship (and was the first thing to break anyway due to the driver cable tearing off). In...
My '63 Max had the inline filter and the one in the trans pan. If you still have the inline filter take it off. Mine was clogged and the weak point is the converter/front pump seal. At one point, I was on the road, and it was poring out faster than I could put it in!
I replaced the fuel pump carb have a new plastic tank and had the carter 4 bbl rebuilt all new fuel system car runs only @ idle for 30 seconds wont take acceleration shuts down ugh! Im baffled i have to move the distributor towards the right all the way to get it to fire. When it idles its...
I just read your thread from the beginning, a great read. Always amazing what bodgery can lie under the paint of an old car, I remember one holden panelvan I had where I discovered new outer sill/rockers had been tacked on top of the original rusted out ones - after grinding off buckets of...
I recommend US Radiator for the Top Quality copper jobs. OER makes an assortment of them too. Alas, I'm constrained by a 22" radiator yoke, so I must use radiators which have a bit more depth to get the necessary surface area AND volume to cool my 383 in urban southern AZ heat. U.S. Radiator...