Recent content by DynaBro

Any tips on how to get the valve to stay in place? New grommet didn't do the trick. It slides out so easily. Been using plumber's tape for bow.

Yeah if I want my suspicion about the crank verified I'll have to pull the pan. Maybe this winter since it leaks anyway.

New distributor fixed everything. It’s like a different car.

Beat I could do.

Assuming that is the bolt face and not the engine face I THINK mine is different. And I also don’t see the number markings as are on mine posted a few posts back.

Probably. You guys have to understand there’s nothing for me to compare any of this to and nobody to ask in real life. I’ve spent plenty of time at the local events and attempting networking and there simply aren’t resources to get educated on this old stuff outside of this forum. I see plenty...

long lost research from last night which I am now sour about. You would think these sources would be uniform on data from 50 years ago.

Marks I can’t find in other photos. But I can’t find many photos so I have no idea.

It's what the bolt head may have been indicating given the lack of information about the previous rebuild and lack of competency/interest of the owner in between that build and my ownership. I was clear on that. If the crank is not a 383 crank and the distributor is that would certainly effect...

All of which is solid enough information that it only keeps the same question in place. Why are they supposed to have a smaller bolt yet it seems virtually none of them do?

Ok so what have we learned here? Why does the literature say non HP 383 motors should have a 5/16 bolt head and virtually everyone's is 1 1/4? I know your car is a project but not what you know of it's provenance. Mine is the same, but I know the motor was a swap and had been rebuilt at one...

God no. The entire motor needs a serious power washing. Honestly I want to pull it and either replace it with a nice fresh one or if this turns out to be good news, clean up, do the necessary repairs, nice and repaint.

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If it has a stroker kit I didn’t know about, and the previous owner certainly didn’t know about, and it has a distributor for a 383, I think that’s pretty obvious. For reference this car barely shifted when I got it and the guy I got it from didn’t know anything or care. It was stored and...

There has been a new discovery. The crank bolt is oversized. I don’t even know how big yet because the largest socket I have is 1 1/8. Guessing 1 1/4. Balancer is not oversized but it does have balancing holes along the edges.