Recent content by BrooklynBeer

nice color especially with matching boot

Sounds like a really good car to learn new things on. Get a manual and everything now has a vid. My first "learning" car was a 65 Fury with a poly 318. Back then all we had was a manual and sound advice from the old guy next door. Took me a few minutes to find out a poly 318 was nothing like a...

Can't hurt to pull plugs and get some marvel mystery in each cylinder to sit. Then crank over and shoot the excess out and replace plugs. It will smoke for sure for a little while. Sounds like it is a little tired. Valve seals replacement won't hurt. No need to pull heads to do that just...

If I am going to change oil right away I get the motor hot and dump in with the oil and let idle for 20-25 minutes. Bumping it down carb prior will break up carbon on the valves and pistons. A motor is an air pump. When that air is being compressed and it is leaking into the crank case it...

How old is the oil in the pan. Sounds like a sticky ring. I have a 49 Buick that had a sticky lifter. tap tap tap for 5 minutes till warm. I am 58 yrs old and done this in the past on many a stuck ring or lifter motor. Get the motor and oil up to operating temps. Drive it and get motor...

So it sits for a couple days and fires up you get blue smoke for a minute ? valve seals. Is every plug same oil fouled? Might want to run a hotter plug. A few extra cranks after a week is no big deal. How old is the gas? You have done timing correct ?

Entire fuel system. It helps free stuck rings. Feed it a full can down the carb at RPM and then a can in the tank. What does your oil smell like? Taste gas? (yes taste the dip stick and smell it) If so you could have a bad fuel pump diaphragm dumping gas into the crank case. Ethanol gas or...

Do you have a manual? Have you tried tightening the gear VIA the top of the gear box ? Did the rebuild change the gears or just the seals ?

Did you by pass the ballast resistor with the pertronix? With key on you should be showing 12 volts at the coil if using a pertronix coil

When you say sometime since driven are we talking months or years ? Either way if it ran when parked it is set to start. Only thing is your carb is dry. Prime the carb with a little mixed gas and let it idle up to operating temp to ensure all the gaskets come around and the thermostat isn't...

Rewiring my 1970 D200 with a painless harness. Doing away with dash oil, temp, amp gauges and instead using aftermarkets. Painless doesn't supply a dedicated wire for a volt gauge. Am thinking off just adding one to the switched "on" side of the ignition switch that feeds the fuse block and...

Only limitations a person has is the ones they set on themselves. I learned that decades ago in the Marine Corp. It just might take more time to learn what you think is impossible o do. Other people do it so why can't I ?

start here on the best rebuild vid around

Really, they are easy to rebuild if you have a hobby garage. Nice 14 part tutorial on youtube and the one book that gives inch pound torque specs. You can miss something on everything you rebuild and have to do it over again. Carbs, fuel pumps, power steering pumps. These things are not...

yep, always a chain