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Thank you for the Welcome . I live in the Justin, Tx area in DFW near TMS Speedway. Mopars I have are a 60 Imperial sedan w/ 413/ pushbutton cast iron Tflite , and a 46 Dodge rat wrecker I built powered by a 54 Dodge 241 Red Ram Hemi w/3 deuces coupled to a 64 pushbutton T/flite and 9” locker rear differential, and a bulletproof straight six 4wd Jeep Grand Cherokee I will keep forever , Others I have are a supercharged 04 Jag XJR , along with my old faithful 7.3L dually , and my wife’s Kia Niro hybrid that gets 52 mpg to partially offset the fuel consumption and carbon emissions of all the others lol .
I have 50 yrs experience in auto service beginning growing up in the 60’s and 70’s in the muscle car era. Starting as a teen at a Full service gas station in N Dallas on Forest Lane , the main popular drag at the time . When I began learning cars, I was very fortunate to work and learn from an owner who insisted on accurate diagnosis and quality repairs . We had the only Sun full dynomometer in N Texas at the time , a huge Sun scope, and all Sun diagnostic equipment including a distributor machine .We also had a Hunter alignment and on car Tune in wheel balancer w/ wheel spinner, that you grabbed the balancer head spinning at 70 mph to adjust , it was a bit scary but was dead accurate . I dynoed as a teen virtually every muscle car of the era. The tires back then were skinny and small so the RWHP was very low , because the tires just could not get it all to the ground without going up in smoke lol .
I became an ASE Mastertech ( initially NIASE then shortened to the far more hip ASE ) for 25+ yrs , eventually holding every job in independent and dealer shops from a kid helper up to Service / General manager.
I was a Snap On dealer 10 yrs in Dallas , and ran independent shops as Service manager or Shop General Manager . I am semi retired have my own air conditioned home shop with lift to work on my own cars and others classics ,custom,street rods, and folks fun cars of various types at times keeping them going and modernized as needed for more reliability .i had a succession of go carts as a kid from a 2 hp Briggs and Straton up to a twin engine Mac 101 alcohol enduro cart as a kid before I started driving a car . I synched up triple sidedraft Webers for a guy using my vintage synchronometer after he couldn’t find anyone to do it so that ancient knowledge was fun to use again . I have vintage scopes to use on classic car ignition systems and found a good working Snap On Counselor 1 for $150 far cheaper than the $3000 I paid for one new years ago as a tech . I still want a Sun distributor machine like the one I used as a teen at the gas station on muscle car era vehicles, that was fun and relaxing for me anyway , to use setting up single and dual point distributors .
I have gained extensive experience now on Deloreans front to back , and am especially good on their long obsolete K jet CIS F.I. System , dating back initially to customers that had them new in the 80’s , and now , totally by accident apparently becoming “the Delorean guy “ by word of mouth , after bringing one back from the dead completely restoring it mechanically front to back for its owner who couldn’t find anyone to work on it , a couple years ago after a friend referred him to old guy me , to see if I would work on it . I Hadn’t seen one in 30 yrs plus , but have found now there are several companies making excellent updated and improved parts for them to fix several problem areas and make it easier to maintain them. I Didn’t expect that , but hey it helps pay for Imperial and Mopar parts , plus they are small and parts much lighter than classic Imperial Mopar parts . I think one of the doors alone on my 60 Imperial weighs about as much as a Delorean , and just its big heavy Mopar RV2 A/C compressor weighs about the same as the engine on a Delorean engine lol.
I will post a thread here on FCBO inquiring if a 62 413 6 bolt flange / flexplate crank will drop in place of the 60 413 8 bolt crank in my Imperial so I can use a newly overhauled aluminum Tflite that parts are far more available for and much cheaper if ever needed , from a 62 Imperial I no longer have . I think it will from what I can tell . Thanks
I have 50 yrs experience in auto service beginning growing up in the 60’s and 70’s in the muscle car era. Starting as a teen at a Full service gas station in N Dallas on Forest Lane , the main popular drag at the time . When I began learning cars, I was very fortunate to work and learn from an owner who insisted on accurate diagnosis and quality repairs . We had the only Sun full dynomometer in N Texas at the time , a huge Sun scope, and all Sun diagnostic equipment including a distributor machine .We also had a Hunter alignment and on car Tune in wheel balancer w/ wheel spinner, that you grabbed the balancer head spinning at 70 mph to adjust , it was a bit scary but was dead accurate . I dynoed as a teen virtually every muscle car of the era. The tires back then were skinny and small so the RWHP was very low , because the tires just could not get it all to the ground without going up in smoke lol .
I became an ASE Mastertech ( initially NIASE then shortened to the far more hip ASE ) for 25+ yrs , eventually holding every job in independent and dealer shops from a kid helper up to Service / General manager.
I was a Snap On dealer 10 yrs in Dallas , and ran independent shops as Service manager or Shop General Manager . I am semi retired have my own air conditioned home shop with lift to work on my own cars and others classics ,custom,street rods, and folks fun cars of various types at times keeping them going and modernized as needed for more reliability .i had a succession of go carts as a kid from a 2 hp Briggs and Straton up to a twin engine Mac 101 alcohol enduro cart as a kid before I started driving a car . I synched up triple sidedraft Webers for a guy using my vintage synchronometer after he couldn’t find anyone to do it so that ancient knowledge was fun to use again . I have vintage scopes to use on classic car ignition systems and found a good working Snap On Counselor 1 for $150 far cheaper than the $3000 I paid for one new years ago as a tech . I still want a Sun distributor machine like the one I used as a teen at the gas station on muscle car era vehicles, that was fun and relaxing for me anyway , to use setting up single and dual point distributors .
I have gained extensive experience now on Deloreans front to back , and am especially good on their long obsolete K jet CIS F.I. System , dating back initially to customers that had them new in the 80’s , and now , totally by accident apparently becoming “the Delorean guy “ by word of mouth , after bringing one back from the dead completely restoring it mechanically front to back for its owner who couldn’t find anyone to work on it , a couple years ago after a friend referred him to old guy me , to see if I would work on it . I Hadn’t seen one in 30 yrs plus , but have found now there are several companies making excellent updated and improved parts for them to fix several problem areas and make it easier to maintain them. I Didn’t expect that , but hey it helps pay for Imperial and Mopar parts , plus they are small and parts much lighter than classic Imperial Mopar parts . I think one of the doors alone on my 60 Imperial weighs about as much as a Delorean , and just its big heavy Mopar RV2 A/C compressor weighs about the same as the engine on a Delorean engine lol.
I will post a thread here on FCBO inquiring if a 62 413 6 bolt flange / flexplate crank will drop in place of the 60 413 8 bolt crank in my Imperial so I can use a newly overhauled aluminum Tflite that parts are far more available for and much cheaper if ever needed , from a 62 Imperial I no longer have . I think it will from what I can tell . Thanks
kowalski1970
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