Yeah, that one's a ton of fun to get at, isn't it? I usually wind up kind of "embracing" the carbs and passing an open-end wrench back and forth from right-hand fingertips to left-hand fingertips. Ju
Jack the car up and put jackstands under the frame rails ahead of the rear Put a floor jack under the axle housing and just barely take the weight off the springs. Undo the four nuts on each side tha
135 hp less 20% drivetrain loss = 108 hp at the wheels. 150 hp less 20% drivetrain loss = 120 hp at the wheels. I've never heard any authoritative (i.e. factory) claims for rear-wheel hp. A couple of
Actually I'm not sure on this one. The parts manual lists different numbers for 1600 and 2000 throwout bearing collars (the book calls them sleeves, so I suppose I should retrain myself), but these n
Ron, as far as I know, there's only three fasteners. Two are studs and one is a front cover bolt. You may have electrolysis between the aluminum water pump housing and the steel studs. Sounds like th
It's pretty easy to make sure the choke is coming off all the way just by pushing on the linkage. As a worst-case, though, two adjacent cylinders can also be from a blown head gasket. Do a compressio
I've heard occasional reports of that happening where someone has switched to Redline in a well-used tranny, but I haven't heard of it happening in a freshly-rebuilt one.
Yes, that's what does it. For a quick fix, you could probably find darn near any hunk of rubber that's about the right thickness and simply zip-tie it in place for the weekend.
"Yo! You in the Hummer! You wanna piece o' this, man? Take your latte-sippin' sissy-mobile back to the condo parking garage!" Damn, that's outrageous! What the hell is it? Gordon
Ah, to gunk or not to gunk. That's a question that always gets some strong opinions from people. There are some valid reasons not to just smear on a bunch of silicone gasket sealer like you're icing
Yeah, that bolt hole misalignment can happen when the head is milled too much. If you don't catch it on preassembly, you're stuck. There's no way to drill or file out that hole once the head is on. G