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My new Yorker's had the same tank of gas in it for at least five years. I topped it up once a couple years ago, IIRC. I'm pretty severely disabled, so I haven't done much with it lately, except to take it down off the lift every so often when I need to use that for something else. Hasn't...

Some Ford Explorer rads fit and are way more efficient.

Sorry to hear ur 60-year-old car needs trans work. I really like the 727s. The one in my New Yorker is still going, even after I worked on it. ;-) Good luck.

Similar setup in my '71 is the same way, still chirping 2nd at 65-70mph with a little over 90k on the clock. 2.76 gears, HP440, 727 w/TransGo kit. But it's a freakin' gas hog.

You guys really got it goin' on over there! It's almost like a time capsule caricature of Americana transplanted across the pond.

First 2-dr NYkr seen. I thought you had to get a 300 if you wanted only 2 doors.

One of these days soon I will get off my arse and get that Chrysler carb in front of me (again) and maybe do some old school driving again this summer. Maybe.

This is why I ditched the stocker and went to an electric fuel pump many years ago. No good ever came of those diaphragm pumps - cheap junk.

You diagnosing cars or people now?

I got me a little homemade 40MPG land missile:

Yeah, you drive torque - what gets you going. I actually prefer diesels for that main reason - just more fun to drive. Race horsepower.

This. The one and only time those things almost got me killed was coming down out of the mountains on I-70 after a ski trip one day back in 1984. I scrapped that car and bought one with discs on it, just to be safe.

I modded the stock fueling on my '71 TnT to use an electric pump mounted at the tank, running the line along the frame all the way to the core support, thru a better filter mounted there, and then back along the top of the fender across the engine bay, straight into the carb. That was the last...

Damn, wish I still had your motivation! Good luck with the knee.

I wonder if people in 2070 will be saying how much cooler cars were in 2020?

Sorry, I didn't think anyone in their right mind would consider a transmission service on one of these things without a full drain, at this juncture. Fluid prices are going up along with everything else, I suppose.

Who said anything about mixing?

Use Dexron-VI for the best performance in an old Torqueflight. It's a synthetic Dex-IIi friction-mode backwards compatible fluid that will likely never need changed again in that gearbox.

Pretty simple job, and really completely solves the braking issue for any sane driver. :thumbsup:

Sometimes I think mine's better off spending most of the time sitting in the garage. At least I am only threat to it there. I have a good quarter panel off the old '70 if you get desperate.