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Does anyone know where I can get a valley pan cover that will clear a stock dual plane 440 six pack intake manifold? Am I stuck with a "trim my own" made out of a factory type intake bath tub gasket? I have iron heads on the engine now & will hopefully be switching to the original open-chamber...

70 Roadrunner 440 with a Milodon "hemi" pan & matching Milodon 1/2" oil pickup tube (I think this is a repro of a 71 hemi e-body pan), running stock windage tray. Old school Direct Connection chrome timing chain cover w/paper gasket & running cork oil pan gaskets. Hughes rear main seal cap...

I've read the sticky & links. I've got a 440 and am replacing the rear main seal with a viton main seal & the silicone side seals in a Hughes "cap". As many of you know, the silicone "cap side seals" really want to slide out while you're pushing the cap up/in (engine in car). Is there an...

I have dents (aka "witness marks") on my stock (Felpro?) windage tray right in the area of cylinders #3 & #4. It looks like maybe the rod bolts are touching the windage tray on those two cylinders. I've never seen this before. It's a stock stroke motor. What do I do? The only thing I can...

I've got a '70 Roadrunner 8-3/4" rear end '489 pumpkin with SS springs & a pinion snubber and 2" lowering blocks. My pinion snubber-to-floor clearance is VERY tight. I've shortened an old Direct Connection (?) box-style adjustable pinion snubber & trimmed down the rubber bumper and it's down...

I've got a couple questions about replacing the pinion seal on a 489 pumpkin 8-3/4" rear end with the pumpkin in the car. 1. Does replacing the seal mess up the pinion/ring gear lash? 2. Is there a tool you can buy to hold the pinion yoke in place while you remove the large pinion yoke nut? I...

I have an iron head 440 I built many years ago in my car now. I have exhaust manifold studs except for two holes which I installed header bolts (driver front bolt/passenger back bolt). About 2 weeks ago I started getting a little drip from the passenger/back header bolt. fyi- I don't seem...

I want to pull a couple lifters from my 440 without removing the intake manifold. I only want to take off the valve covers & rockers/shafts. The lifters are pretty low mileage, so I don't "expect" any of them to be mushroomed at the bottom. I saw this tool on ebay. What do you guys suggest...

How loud are adjustable rocker arms with a hydraulic cam? I haven't driven this car enough lately to know for sure, but mine is "sounding" like a solid lifter cam. Background: 440 with Isky ductile iron rockers & Isky pushrods Mopar "purple stripe" double springs Just set the valve lash (3/4...

I've always had good luck with Champion plugs. I went to install a new set of plugs (actually old un-used plugs I had in my garage). I noticed I have 4 plugs that are Champion RS12YC and 4 plugs that are RJ12YC. What is the difference?

I'm working on my father-in-law's "Brand X" car ('64 Chevy II Nova SS 283 2bbl.). It has no spark & I'm baffled. The car is 99% stock & is still running the original points ignition. Does anyone know a website I can find a '64 Chevy service manual? (or at least an ignition diagnostic method)...

So, I've got the valve covers off & just adjusted the valve lash. I notice that there is some coolant "weeping" out of the rear/lower valve cover bolt hole on the passenger side. Is that a cracked head? I'm "hoping" those threads just run really, really close to the head cooling jacket & I...

70 Roadrunner 4spd car --> I've had a weird sound in my car after I shut it off. Everything seems normal once it's parked & turned off, then "clunk"...…………………"clunk"...……………."clunk". It seems like it's under the car somewhere & sounds like a metal-on-metal sound which repeats about 4-5 times...

So I bought a set of "taller truck valve covers" for a big block motor pretty cheap. They are supposed to be a little taller than car valve covers. Do I get any extra oil baffle clearance? I'm trying to clear some Isky ductile iron rocker arms. I may end up stacking 2 valve cover gaskets...

Any idea what year/make/model this transmission came out of?

SOLD (SORRY IF I POSTED IN WRONG FORUM...my mistake) I have a good used set of 3.55 gears from a 489-case 8-3/4" rear end. They have the stronger 10-spline yoke pinion. $100+ shipping.

My current motor is sucking oil through the motor somehow (70 440 w/stock valve covers & baffles removed). I don't believe it's the rings, but it could be the guides/seals, intake, or valve covers. I will be working on checking the intake fit as soon as some "wax rope" shows up. Anyway, this...

I'm building a "budget, low-rpm, highway cruiser" 440 & I'm trying to use some used stock rocker arms. 1. What are the limits of a stock rocker arm? I mean, are they limited by spring pressure, cam size, or what? What are those limits? 2. When re-using stock rocker arms, what exactly should...

I got a deal on some E-Street Edelbrock heads (part# 5093/84cc ). They cam with these springs (Edelbrock part# 5792). Edelbrock recommends the Performer RPM #7194 cam for these heads, BUT I'm considering running either the Comp Cams XE274 or the XE274HL (leaning towards the XE274HL). This...

My engine is sucking oil from the intake valley into the intake ports (440 six pack cast iron). I've struggled with this issue for years. I "think" the block was milled .040" & I "think" the heads were milled .020" (going from memory only 20+ yrs. ago). I do not "think" the intake face of the...