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Dunno what the torque specs were for the 300s, but seems like 67 C bodies at least were 65 ft-lb except for the Valiants which were 55. If the 300s were also 65 then it's well within the stud's limit.

It's not ideal, but it does work. Did it on my old toyota using some sacrificial nuts, I put a light coat of motor oil on the threads to relieve the stress a bit then cleaned it all up, it was still good when I sold the car years later. Mind you, this is a late 80s toyota...not sure if 60s...

I can only assume that Chrysler deemed it too expensive or a hassle to modify the stub frame so that the engine sat more to the left, and mirror the steering while still retaining the LHD box. When I first got the car I wondered why there was so much room on the left side before I realised it...

Yeah about that...our steering boxes are RHD-specific; the internals are identical to US counterparts, but the housing is different so unfortunately for us, no using LHD boxes. A real shame because it would've opened up the opportunity to use the borgeson units which are much lighter (~10 kg/23...

Just an info dump thread for anyone else with these year model RHD barges. Not too many pictures unfortunately, my hands were absolutely filthy to the point that someone could accuse me of trying to do blackface, if it were on my face. Tools/sockets needed: - 19mm or 3/4 inch socket - 16mm or...

Sweet thanks. Not too bothered by the shifter location, I know on the US ones it's biased to the left but I always figured with my one, if a new tunnel wasn't required to be fabbed up I'd just grab a hole saw and drill the center hump, then get some sort of pickup truck-length shifter or...

Tremec TKX transmission. I'm asking if anyone remembers when they last did their clutch, because they might have an idea of how much room the gearbox tunnel has.

I've heard that solid state regulators will have a much smoother/more consistent power output. Wouldn't be surprised if that stops any gauge fluctuations, if not greatly reducing it. The Regitar C524 ones are fairly cheap and apparently work well with a very steady voltage, at least from what...

Hmm...I figure this is a related thread for this - has anyone here dropped their gearbox for a clutch change? Would a TKX fit without having to bash or cut/weld the tunnel (aside from maybe the shifter hole)?

I recently overhauled the front suspension bits on my 67 and while I haven't worked on too many cars, I agree with this in that it was definitely a lot easier than I expected. Took a lot of time, but progress was fairly steady and there was a lot of room to work with given that my car is just...

I've seen a few instances where the workshop manual insists on bench bleeding the master, but the master got installed dry and was then bled without any other issues. I did it on my old cressida like this and never had problems that way as well.

Toyota still sell the rubber inserts if you know the part number. But most of their wipers use a 6.5mm claw width, I can't remember if their bigger vehicles/SUVs like the tundra, 4runner etc. use 8.5mm or 6.5mm. But if anyone here has a toyota and can confirm the model they have uses 8.5mm, I...

Oh man that is so cool. Do you have any young kids? They're 100% going to get a kick out of discovering it if you haven't told them about it, or give hints about a little hidey hole

But the paper itself is just like a regular piece of A4 paper right? or paper of that kind of composition?

Geez...how hard or thick must the paint be to not even dent from a goddamn punch?

You probably already know this, but Imperials are banned from demolition derbies because they're built like tanks. Chrysler really was something else in the 60s.

Fun with a 20 tonne press: I tried to use a piece of galvanised pipe, but the widest size bunnings sells is 25mm - this is too narrow to fit around the pivot shaft once that's been pressed into the bushing, so don't bother going there. They do sell 30mm pieces, but they're at least a metre long...

On a related note, the bushings for the bracket that connects the sway bar to the strut rod - if you buy aftermarket ones there's a good chance they don't have a slit in them, and unless you can fab up some sort of sleeve, it's damn near impossible to push them on without seriously damaging...

Well...there IS another way. But it's not pretty: I think Citroen or one of the other French manufacturers also did some similar, reverse rake C/D pillars. I had a 94 Camry wagon in the same colour as above, I still miss it. The thing would probably outlive cockroaches. The V6 made it...

@Justin Plant that makes sense, don't want potential customers to mistake it for the competition! @CBODY67 Oh yeah that sheet metal is t h i c k. The way these cars were built definitely wouldn't fly today with what we know now about crash physics though. New cars tend to sacrifice themselves to...