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So the wheelbase was like at 110" and you moved the strut rods bushings to get it closer to 109"?

Are the shocks on? The suspension is all unloaded and that is why it seems to not reach. When the shocks are on they limit the suspension travel. If the suspension was loaded they should reach easily.

That hose seems to be the correct hose. It does reach the caliper, correct?

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I just did my suspension some months ago. I bought some Eaton Detroit springs for the back and some Elgin for the front. Back sits perfect, front is too high. Attempted to save some money with the front springs, and now I will have to cut them. If I were to do it again I would buy the Eaton...

This car was hit hard on the drivers side door at some point in its life. The car was put back together with the lower outer A-pillar all mangled up and some replacement rocker panels badly welded with missing chunks out of them filled with seam filler. I need a lower outer A pillar in good...

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Could your headers/exhaust be hitting something when you start accelerating that is causing the vibrations? An engine that is out of tune/missing should not be felt through the steering wheel and on the dash as vibrations. It seems something on the engine is hitting the chassis or something else...

First thing I would check is the operation of the accelerator pump on the carburetor. Most of the time this is caused by insufficient accelerator pump shot. The accelerator pump plunger may be a bit bad and just not pushing the amount of fuel you need, or you may just need to adjust where the...

I see no reason why a professional tint shop could not tint that back window adequately while installed. I have tinted a couple of my cars when I was young, but I was, and am, a total amateur. I would not like to do that rear glass. Having said that, I had a guy in Florida that used to tint all...

At what RPM is the engine idling and at what RPM is it once it is in gear? The timing could be a tad retarded, and maybe the idle RPM a tad low and that would give you a mild "shake" in gear. When you went to electronic ignition what did you use? Where is the timing set at idle? Do you know what...

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Plugs look nice and clean. I would not doubt that the issue is with the intake manifold gasket and oil leaking in that way.

If the vacuum gauge is jumping all over the place I would check the valve adjustment. Usually when the needle jumps rapidly from a low point in the gauge to a high point it means that one or more valves are not sealing. The rocker arms could be adjusted too tight and not be letting one or more...

Seems to me that you just put your old 73 brackets in, instead of the 71 brackets, or the brackets you thought were 71's are in fact 73's. Remove the bumper and remove the brackets and check them with your old brackets. There should be a substantial height difference between the 2 sets of brackets.

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Yes, seems like over rich to me too. Like the carb is leaking a bit and when he starts it the engine is all loaded up with fuel, and as soon as the fuel is burned off it all goes back to normal. It may not be fuel, but from the description that it sounds like it has a cold when you start it, it...

Usually 220 degrees at .050 is about max for power brakes. You are a little over that, but you should be able to make it work. Have you checked how much idle vacuum you have? That is probably the first thing to do to see where you are at. Second thing is to recurve your distributor to get a lot...

The 3.25 or lower was just to keep the compressor speed down. You will be fine with the 3.50 gears, don't sweat it too much.