BCWs did not have front end ballast. 

The ’80’s were a terrible time for engines. They typically had 3 miles of vacuum hoses with dozens of time delay vacuum check valves, solenoids, and relays all in an attempt to meet federal emission regulations. If your engine is missing all this stuff, I can only think that is a good thing.

An update that there’s no update. I’m waiting for the domain name transfer to happen, which typically takes 7-10 days. Perhaps I was too hopeful it would have happened quicker. After that it will be a day or two to get my act together and start in on the weekend directly thereafter.

Looks great but can’t figure out why he drilled the big holes in the license plate.

Looks great.

285 is OK for a cylinder head temp. Oil should stay below 230F. But, right: our gauges are suspect.

good thing you noticed the wobble before it was too late. She’s gotta go and importantly, she’s gotta stop. Yes, reducing the air pressure to around 16 or 17 pounds in the front will make it ride a little better. Some of the guys have put some weights in the front to compensate for the light front end or have taken some of the springs (torsion…[Read more]

Hey, Phillip! Welcome to the forum.

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Great deal for the right kit. Anyone heard of Ro-Mar?

Shounds good Schu. Hopefully we can go on a little cruise before that.

Nice Dean Now a cruise up to Ed’s house on the 18th.You up for that?

And don’t forget the Anti-sieze.

If you’re stuck driving in the rain, you’ll appreciate the discs.

with our weight distribution front drums are enough I bought bigger diameter rear wheel cylinders like the dune buggy guys use.  I want all 4 wheels to lock up at the same time

Well I got it all apart. The Nuts and bolts that were used had chrome head caps but the treads were rusted very badly. I had to destroy the chrome caps to get the bolts out. (vice grips will do that) I plan an replacing all of the nuts and bolts with stainless so If I have to ever do this again it should be a simple process. The previous owner had…[Read more]

There is always the adjustable propotioning valve.

Thank you, Stephen. Seriously.

We may be offline for a few hours when the transfer happens. I’ve got it mostly scripted but there are some parts I’ll have to do manually after the forum database imports. Waiting for the domain transfer, hopefully will be done within the week.stephenhouser2016-05-29 11:44:29