Recent content by DPeltz

You must be running some sticky tires to be flirting with 11’s? Would highly recommend a SFI bell. AND always use proper hardware on your your flywheel and pressure plate. Are you running an SFI spec flywheel?

Correction: You will lose play as disk wears, but will gain play when surfacing flywheel. I would think this would be minimal unless it needed a lot of material removed.

As the disk wears, or, in your case surfacing your flywheel, you will lose pedal free play. This can be adjusted on the rod connected to your z-bar. If you have everything correct, when fully engaged, pedal should come up high enough that the over center spring will take the pedal up to the...

Compression, and/or leakdown tests. Condensor, and firing order double check also an excellent idea. You mentioned new timing set, did you degree your cam? New parts today must be scrutinized at every step. Good Luck!!

Well said 68 rt!!

You could check and make sure the pinion nut holding the yoke on hasn’t loosened. Long shot, but that sets preload. Not sure if 741 has crush sleeve. Others will know. Good Luck.

Yup, as stated. Match pushrods to lifters

As stated above. Make sure you use the correct lubricant. Some are not friendly with the synchronizers.

I’m mostly a 4 speed guy, but in my experience, a converter not fully seated typically takes out the pump long before it would damage the thrust bearing. Always something that should be checked on assembly as stated. However, I recently saw, or read an article about some kind of flow...

Agree, hand cranking will never get correct information.

On most, valve covers are 1/4-20 x 1/2 with factory covers, and 1/4-20x 3/4 with cast aluminum covers. Make sure the holes aren’t full of RTV. Intakes are 3/8-16 x probably 1 1/4- 1 1/2. Use t-tape, or pipe dope to prevent oil wicking. This can vary depending on washers, hold downs, etc.

As the last 440 rolled off the production line nearly 50 years ago, options are getting rarer by the day, unfortunately. Sometimes we have to do some massaging, or tweaking to what we have, or can get, to make it work for our application. A production stick can be carefully modified with a...

See you’re from NY. I’m in PA. I only drive my car seasonally. You can get valley pans with or without open crossover. Depends on your driving habits what would work best for you. Good luck.

First, I have never owned a Hemi car. Retired after 30 plus years as a millwright in a steel mill. In my experience, hardware store all thread will never hold torque long term. In use, as things expand, they will stretch, and will not recover. I wish you luck, but I would make sure not...

I’m getting older, and haven’t been under my car lately, but are you sure the reverse rod isn’t installed backwards? I know the pic you posted from Dan shows as such also, but I don’t recall ever having the adjustable end on the transmission on any of my cars. If I’m wrong, my apologies in...