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A little warning to purchasers of newly made turn signal switches for Saginaw steering columns: BE WARY OF DIRECT SUN! About a month ago, the right turn signal on Gertrude ceased function when switching for it. Yestereve, so did the Left signal. I checked the flashers, and the lights all...

I did it, and preliminary tests promise excellent results! I scored a BRAND NEW, 1975, Micronta 22-1620 CD ignition box, all made in Ye Auld Republic of these here Yoonited States, sans ugly UPC barcode. Ecce: Note the old style slotted head screws included in the ditty bag meant to secure...

Greetings My Wise Moparians! While my Taylor coil still produces enough spark to run Gertrude, last August's engine fire indubitably compromised that coil. I replaced it this past weekend with an NOS Delco coil made for Mopars, and VROOM!, spark MUCH improved! Alas, All yet needs be made...

I usually dispense advice in this particular Forum, Electrical, as its the one area I've had plenty prior experience with. Ah, but Pride goeth 'ere the Fall, eh? So, I looked at the lovely new Shee-Mar 107 I ordered from Rock Auto last weekend, knowing the wire pull from the turn signal switch...

Well, some folks did say, "I told ye so..." so I'm not totally surprised. I bought my PowerMaster 17019 Oct 8 last year, and, JUST AFTER THE 1 YEAR WARRANTY EXPIRED, I get bearing trouble! To be somewhat fair to Powermaster, I ran a 2V pulley on one belt, just as I have all the previous...

Greetings Moparians! Have been testing the newly rebuilt 915 heads with Edelbrock 1405 on our quarter million mile 383. The old motor purrs around town streets nicely enough, but I see when putting it on the interstate a creeping rise in temperature that I don't care for. I can think of a...

Quick warning to the Faithful: A Tuff Stuff 6084B starter, purchased 10/17/2020, has either burned out, or otherwise busted the solenoid or bendix gear this afternoon, less than 2 years after purchase. Not too damned tough, was it? It spins just dandy, but NO ENGAGEMENT W THE STARTER TEETH ON...

Greetings C Body Moparians! I've been shopping for a modern, Bluetooth and USB capable radio for Gertrude, and aside from an overpriced Redondo RT ( 1968-1970 Dodge Charger Redondo RT Thumb-Roller Radio ) from Retro Manufacturing meant for the '68 Charger, including Sirius satellite, Apple, and...

Having planned THIS move for several years anyway, my hopes that a new pusher fan would suffice to keep Gertrude running cool inspired me to go ahead, replace the cheap NAPA alternator with the squirrely bearings, upgrade the wiring, and pop a new pusher fan on the front of the undersized...

Greetings Moparians! I started getting some carburetor backfiring yesterday, and am checking This and That in search for a remedy. I thought this particular set of symptoms most likely caused by air horn warp, but NOW have a wholly different hypothesis. Just to make sure my timing had NOT...

Having seen a fair number of threads over the past year or so from other '66 C body owners with troubles similar to mine, I now happily report there ARE GOOD SOLUTIONS available to us! For gauges, Autometer makes an EXCELENT unit matching the specifications for our old machines, billed by Jegs...

Greetings Moparians! Having read The Oracle of the Honorable Mountain (Ehrenberg) on using the venerable 7805 IC regulator to replace the Victorian antique behind the gas gauge, I went in search of some 7805s to make up a few of these for folks. New Egg carries stuff already done. I...

A quick note for Slab-side owners especially, and owners of older stuff too: upgrade the wire from the battery to your starter relay! Mopar alternators of the mid 1960s varied from about 30 to 60 amps capacity maximum, so the #10 AWG wire dedicated to running the dash stuff seemed adequate for...

Greetings C-body Moparians, Since the wiring is done on my headlight upgrade, I can start sharing my experience with folks. I'm happy to report this worked better than I expected, and if done well, this WILL significantly improve headlight luminosity and decrease the voltage drop imposed from...

Having bought a re-manufactured 30-3817 distributor from AutoZone over a year ago with decent improvement in my ignition, I noticed the "flat" acceleration had not been alleviated but in light of the unarguable overall improvement in performance, I considered my $38 well spent, and still do...

Just wanted to note that I dropped $40 on one of these at Vatozone, popped it in in about 5 minutes, checked my timing, which already was optimal, noted that my dwell angle jumped from about a feeble 12 degrees to a nice snappy 33, and that my 383 now purrs along with the smooth zip of a motor...

Having replaced the filler tube grommet on my pleasantly surprisingly NEW full size 23 gallon gas tank, I now would like to get the fuel gauge working. So I removed the instrument cluster, which I'm using NONE of at present, and seeing how nice its condition is, I would like to rebuild and...

Despite sometimes insufferable pride in being an “original thinker” when new to a given discipline, I follow the prescriptive thinking of that discipline’s cognoscenti scrupulously and often to a fault. This being only my second C body Mopar, with the first barely serving me for 3 months before...