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Check gas tank venting. Spark plug gap. Plug wires (too high resistance if using modern wires?). Hope you're using a good break-in oil with lots of zinc.

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I wrote earlier in this thread that I installed a pair of MCQUAY-NORRIS FB290, well, I did, but those are the upper arm bushings. I did also buy a pair of MCQUAY-NORRIS FA395 - those are the upper ball joints. I did install them, my arms were sand blasted but otherwise nothing else done to the...

Dexron 3 has horrible shear properties over time. Non-lockup torque converters will shear your oil. ATF+4 has much better shear properties and will last much longer in a 727. Type F is bad for your 727, it will wear your clutch bands. It will give you harder shifts (if you like that sort of...

From the 1965 Plymouth service manual, the default Fury tire size was 7.35-14. Reading between the lines, I presume that was for slant-6 cars. Station wagon (apparently slant-6) was 8.25-14. V8 cars (not wagons) was 7.75-14. V8 wagons was 8.55-14. This was for all Fury's. I don't have a...

https://www.sweptline.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=36401 Some of that - I don't get. They're talking about full-size (C-bodies) up to '74 having 2" rear drums? Really? But it looks like my drums really did come from a d100? Rockauto is showing Raybestos 2955R as being "Rear, with 11in x 2in...

I almost wish that would have been my only option - to buy a set of 2.5" and grind them while turning on the car. That would have been - fun. But, here we are. Turned, and shot-blasted (or shot-peened?): They're 2.5% (200 grams) lighter now. The width of the friction-face is pretty much 6...

Did you see this thread: https://www.forcbodiesonly.com/mopar-forum/threads/steering-wheel-wants-to-turn-right-while-idling-steering-gear-adustment-or-front-end-alignment.87022/ Long story short - I also changed a seal to fix a leak. The steering shaft (worm shaft) seal. I didn't take much...

Uggh. I am such a dummy. I keep forgetting that my back shoes are 2" wide. It seems that there was a transition between '68 - '69 in terms of making 2.5" rear shoes the standard. I am going to have my rear drums checked, see if they need machining. This is one of them - seems pretty...

In the past couple days I've been looking to see where I can get new rear drums for my '67 Dodge Monaco. Drums all around, rear shoes are 2.5". Rock auto shows a few PN's (Dynamic friction, centric) but no stock. I call around locally and I give them some rock auto PN's for front and rear...

I think you would only need to disconnect 1 line. And have an assistant cut the engine when you notice no more oil is being dumped.

Not that I've ever tried it, but I've read that disconnecting one of the trans cooler lines at the rad and dumping it into a pail while the engine is running in neutral is the clean way to drain the transmission. I presume this also drains the TC?

Wasn't there a year-range where the torque converter did / didn't have a drain plug?

I think the practical options are going to be dexron 6 or ATF+4. I did the same thing recently and went with ATF+4 ($75 CAD for a 4.7 liter jug, had to buy 2 jugs). Do you plan on a full drain? Or just replacing what gets dumped when you drop the pan?

There's one or 2 check balls in that carb. One specifically under the accel pump. Is it still there?

Stumbled across this today on FB. A Chrysler (Newport or Newyorker?) converted into a water fountain / chicken coop:

It's not that the washers aren't big and strong, it's that their mere presence means oil getting sheared by them? And maybe not just 1 or 2 of them? That there's a better way if you want to avoid that? I guess in the big picture it's not a really big deal, but someone threw it out there.

I got the sense that other transmissions have fewer thrust washers?

I came across a comment posted on the web along the lines of the 727 having a lot of loaded thrust washers, hinting that maybe other transmissions (or modern transmissions) don't have that? One of the outcomes of that being that it's bad for oil (I guess causing oil shear, reducing oil life...

Maybe some of those ball-bearing units have plastic carrier, others are steel?