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Pinched or chaffed wire shorted to ground. Who put the column together and stabbed the wire with a screw?

That's nothing new. I used to change hydraulic pumps on Gradalls in the sixties the same way. Fire up the carrier and hook up a vacuum hose to a filler cap fitted with a barbed fitting. ....and that was on a 1+ inch supply line. When I was all done, I simply shut down the carrier engine...

If I take the car out and really "drive it" like the Boston area to Parsippany, NJ or to Burlington VT, 30 weight oil won't cut the mustard after two or three hours so I switched back to 20W-50. It was fine around town and short, local, trips but long trips were an issue with the 30 weight oil.

Pretty much what I've been seeing ever since the government took zinc out of motor oils. Sounds like you're running right at the relief valve pressure going down the highway.

I run 20-50 VR-1 in my GTX, my hemi-powered '34 Ford and my sidevalve six in Tex Smith's old '48 Chrysler Older engines don't have the tight clearances of the newer engines. 10W-30 results in abysmally low oil pressure at idle in these older engines.

You said flat tappet. I'm taking that to mean a solid lifter flat tappet cam to go along with the adjustable rocker arms. These setups use special pushrods as well. ALL flat tappet cams will be "noisy". It's the way they work. What are you running for clearance? Are you setting the...

If you want a quiet car to drive, step up and buy something less than ten years old. If you want to relive the sixties, just do it, LIVE WITH IT, don't butcher it up with sound deadener and ruin the authenticity of the car. In the 56 years I've owned my GTX, the road noise never bothered me...

Don't know why you'd want to keep a set of knurled pistons, either. Rods, yes, knurled pistons, no.

Yup, take a look at the plug and READ THE LETTERS and the schematic will, suddenly, make sense, especially when the wires are so old that you can't distinguish the colors anymore. Ford and GM schematics are the same as well. Hell, even Freightliner, Navistar, Hino, Toyota and on and on use the...

Put a real meter on the post and get an accurate measurement.

I've seen a couple of ammeters fail. They were left in the circuit when the owners replaced their stock alternators with high-output alternators and that 60 amp ammeter blew out just like a fuse.

"The new bumpers are thinner metal, cheap chrome and often wavy and imperfect" I totally agree. That's why I never replaced mine. Never had them re-chromed, either. If I did, I'd lose my 1972 coledge parking stickers ;-(

That's strange because when I opened up my 4 speed in '69 to replace a chipped gear (due to a missing thrust washer on the end of the cluster gear -- factory error) the trans was filled with gear lube, not ATF. I've been running 80-90 lube in there for 56 years and it shifts just fine. It was...

Ordered this one in January 1968 and took delivery in early February. Still own it. This picture was shot in 2017, BTW.

I've had an AGM battery in one of my Magnums for nearly 12 years now and the car starts right up every morning, even in the winter up in New England. It has far outlasted ANY of the lead acid batteries in the rest of my fleet. The best ones only last about 72 months before the starter starts...

Car delivered in 2 weeks and it wasn't even built when I ordered it.

691 is the code for a dealer executive order. The description says Expedite. Turnaround (in 1968) for this type of order was a 2 week delivery. Normal orders took 4 to 6 weeks at the time. a "6" under the "d" is drum brakes Disc brake cars came with 10 inch rear drums and drum brake cars...

No, it was the 8,855th car off the line that year. All Chrysler plants started the yearly numbering system with 100001. Ignore the leading "1" to get the correct number of vehicles each year. .......and special ordered cars usually had option 691Expedite at the bottom of the Monroney label...

Built it in '64. Was painted in Agawam in '72. Had to re-paint it (everything but the ribbons and caricatures) after blowing a tire on the way home from Louisville, KN outside Hershey, PA in 2008 and taking out the right quarter. Ya can't "blend" Kandy Tangerine very easily. It's easier to...

I just re-joined NEHOA