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My guess is that you may have been shipped the brake lines for a disc brake car. Check the Rock Auto catalogue again for soft line specific to a drum brake car. The soft lines do not interchange. Dave

You might also want to check to be sure the machine shop did not put the driver side mounting flange on backwards. The flange is offset so it will not seat unless properly installed. Dave

Take a propane torch and heat the area around the stud. I use a birthday candle on the hot metal. As the wax melts it should be drawn into the the threads on the stud and help free it up. Dave

if you are going to drive this car on the street with that gear ratio, your engine will be beating itself to death. Since you are rebuilding the transmission, invest in a gear vendor overdrive kit to give the car more flexibility. Dave

They probably corroded from sitting. This is pretty common on vintage parts. Dave

You will need to remove the E-Brake drum from the rear of the transmission. Then remove the E Brake shoes, there should be a snap ring that holds the cable to the backing plate. Dave

If your vehicle has headlight doors, they will not operate with the LED lamps. The circuit that closes the doors when the lights are turned off uses the filaments of the headlights as a ground to close the relay and the doors. For that kind of money, I personally would not make the upgrade...

The correct booster would be a Midland Ross unit. That is the one with the lock ring around the outside. If your salvage yard has one, grab the mounting plate and the pedal while you are at it. You can use the '67 master cylinder which will bolt on the '66 mount plate. You will also need to...

The top number is the casting date, looks to be 1-23-78 which makes it a late production 440. Mostly in police cruisers and trucks at that point. Check the pan rail on the passenger side, there should be a VIN number stamped there which would tell you what the engine came out of. Be sure to...

Starting in 1974, the year code is 4T440, it goes up by one digit, ex. 5T440 for '75 until the production run stopped in '78. The lower numbers appear to be 2 73 which is the assembly date for the engine. Sales of big blocks cratered in '73 because of fuel shortages and higher prices. There...

Most Chrysler electronic distributors used a ballast resistor. Some were the same as the stock points unit and others were the dual pass type. Your '71 would have probably had the single pass stock type. Most of the Chi-com knockoffs are a POS. The early MSD units were prone to shorting out...

What year vehicle is this? The older ones used a cable from the heater control to the heater valve. This applies to most '68 and older models. This cable sometimes comes loose from the heater control or the heater valve. For the later ones, If the blower is working, then you likely have a...

In the photo, you shoes appear to be wearing unevenly, more at the bottom. Have you checked the wheel bearing on that side? A worn or poorly adjusted wheel bearing will sometimes cause weird wear patterns, usually excessive ware at the bottoms of the shoe as a bad bearing will cause the axle to...

There is a short rubber hose where the fuel line goes into the stub frame at the front of the car at about the passenger seat, did you replace that hose? If the hose is good, if you have access to a smoke generator, disconnect the line at the fuel sensor and at the fuel pump. plug the line at...

You can have your existing radiator re-cored at any good radiator shop. To do this, it will cost about $800 but it will be correct when you are done. Dave

Neutral safety switch supplies the ground to activate the relay. Dave

C 440 is a 1967 block and will not normally have a VIN number stamped on it as the VIN number system on engines did not start until '68. If the vehicle is a '67 this is probably the correct engine. You should check the build sheet and the build tag to be sure the car came with a 440. Dave

A lot of city police cruisers had the 318 with the police package. Dave

Sometimes the fan control switch goes bad and gets stuck, usually in the low fan position. If you pull the heater control and remove the switch, you can carefully take it apart. Often, someone will have gotten too rough with the switch and the little tabs that hold it together will have come...

Clevite is a good brand of bearing. That might mean that either the camshaft was not properly machined or there is a serious warping problem with the block. Before getting all excited about that, I would start by having the bearing surfaces of the cam checked with a micrometer. Some of the...