Recent content by allansplace

Hi cordoba-rick. Your van sounds great! Do you have any pictures? Yah, my father had a 3-in-the-tree as a work van, one of a whole fleet of Dodges. I wasn't allowed to drive it. Then again, I was 7. No, they're not so common anymore, at least not in reasonable shape. According to sleepar...

Yes. Good point. Dead battery is a result, not a cause. I'll have to comb through the electrical in the RV part ... maybe disconnect all the odd-looking wires and go from there. As for the parts, it looks like there's a huge variety down there. My brother gets most of his Ford parts from...

Hi hotrod Al. This is also Al. Or Allan. This was one of the first things I did - pull out the plugs and have a look. I had a Chev Malibu with a 267-V8 once that always gooed up one plug. Bad rebuild. High school days, you know. So now I almost enjoy cleaning plugs. I took a wire brush...

Thanks rumblefish360. That is exactly what I did - get a timing light. My father (a Dodge-head from way back) said it was electronic ignition and didn't need to be timed. However, I could move the distributor back and forth, so obviously it CAN and SHOULD be timed. However, I'm unsure about...

Hi sleepar. No, in fact I'm not generally in the habit of tasting engine oil. Seems a strange thing to do in retrospect. I think Art had mentioned something about if it "smelled sweet". Tasting it seemed ... well, now it seems pretty unscientific, I admit. - - - Updated - - - Hi mopwrd340...

Hi. I'm Allan. I'm new here, and this is my first post. I guess most people here are high-performance rebuilt enthusiasts. I'm not a wrench-head myself but come from a long line of them, most of them married to Dodge. Enough about me and mine. Here's my project. Just a week ago I bought a...