Recent content by 1973 Mach-1

Welcome. That's a grand introduction, anyway. Best of luck to you on your build!

Welcome to the forum. It would seem to me that you're going about it correctly. If you're in Texas, the rear louvers will be a great asset! I'm in Arizona, and my louvers, although aftermarket jobs, keep a lot of sun and heat from wrecking my interior.

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Stared at my engine bay, until I got a call from The Damper Doctor. He said my Harmonic Balancer is going to come home starting Monday!!

This is a seperate pulley bracket. The compressor mount is a seperate unit on this car which I will be offering later.

I have an A/C idler pulley and bracket that I removed from a 351 Cleveland. The pulley bearings are smooth, and overall the bracket is in great shape. I have included three pictures showing all sides of it. I'm asking $120.00 for it. I have other A/C stuff I'll post at a later date. Please P.M...

Welcome from Arizona!

For every DIY-er who has an infuriatingly difficult-to-find problem in acceleration, I have found what the problem COULD be. I’ve had everything from my engine just flat-out die when I feathered the gas pedal to running fine with a little stagger that I just COULD NOT get rid of. Timing was...

Welcome to the forum, from Arizona. You have a beautiful car there. Congratulations for the stick-to-it-tivness and hard work!

Great idea Hemikiller. To my ear (through the video, anyway) it sounds like a valve train problem, or a tappet. I'd say try the brake-on throttle test, and see if it's something simple like an exhaust leak at a cylinder.

Thank you STANGLOVER and GIANTPRUNE. I have a factory AC, 73 Mach 1, and the Radiator is aftermarket. The power steering cooler runs through the Trans cooler ducting in the radiator. There is a secondary cooler for the Transmission. I am planning to remove the power steering cooler entirely...

Holy Cow! Times have lengthened substantially since I had mine done in February of 2021! The Shop I took it to, Arizona Engine Rebuilding, was pretty busy, and they took about 6 weeks, to do this: PISTON'S & RINGS ROD & MAIN BEARINGS CAM BEARINGS (WHERE APPLICABLE) OIL PUMP TIMING CHAIN &...

How's the re-build going? Looking forward to hearing that you're on the road!

Welcome, from Arizona!

Now that tire age is moot, I have a story: Nine years ago, when I got my 73, it came with good looking tires, so I left them because there were other things to fix. In a few months, the car was reliable enough to drive across town to a friends restaurant for lunch. Upon leaving the restaurant, I...