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Somebody didn't get the memo. They were supposed to granada swap the front end of the car to get disc brakes, not the back end to get the light duty axle.

How do we know the grille is not right side up, but he's got the rest of the car upside down?

It sometimes take a lot longer than expected. And if you have a second pair of hands, have somebody continuously rotate the engine while you prime it. Can you tell if the lifters are getting oil filling them? If you still can't get anything, perhaps the oil galley plug came out (or forgot to...

Does the rubber membrane have a vent hole?

IDK, I've got cars with 25yr old brake fluid in them still working fine. Its a sealed system. Where's all the water coming from?

I had the same issue as OP on one of my 73 mustangs. The issue turned out to be the rear rubber hose. It connects the steel line in the transmission tunnel with the steel lines on the rear axle. Mine was caked with crud. I replaced that rubber hose and the brakes worked again. I still have...

There's not a whole lot to decode on that vin. Its only a partial. I think you already got the year-1973 and the plant was Atlanta. The rest is the sequential car number it came from. There were a handful of cars that came with a 351C, made in Atlanta in 1973. That could possibly be a...

If you hook up a drill to the oil pump and crank it, you should see oil coming up to each head, oozing out the ends of the pushrods, onto the top of each rocker. I don't think there's a way to install the head gasket so wrong that would prevent that. Run that bad boy till the drill smokes. :D

1) If you've done the check of moving the crankshaft while watching the distributor rotor, and determined you have 10 degrees of slop, that pretty much seals the deal. You can repeat that test to be sure. But it doesn't lie. If you get the same result, a second and a third time, the timing...

I wouldn't be above shimming it. If there's a 3/4 one available, thats 6/8. You need 5/8. You could cut a soda can into strips, or sacrifice a harbor freight feeler gauge. Wrap it around your bar, and now its 3/4". :D

+150 points for creativity and ingenuity. My critique I guess would be it looks pretty complex. Is that 6 idler pulleys? CVF sells serpentine kits with the AC compressor on the passenger side.

Are you trying to compress the spring and then install it? Or are you inserting the spring, then compressing it with the compressor through the upper shock tower, and then attaching it to the upper control arm? In my experience, the first method can be hard. You have to orient the spring...

If we're keeping score, I caught one of these clamps failing on one of my fuel lines a couple months ago. I was not the one who installed it, but I do get the blame for not replacing it. :D It was on the rubber line between the mechanical pump and the carb. The leak was dumping gas all over...

Yep, those are in my garage. I'm not sure I'd want to make them, though. I'd need to have the rest of the parts here to do measurements and verify fitment. And then there would be some level of liability if the little clamp snaps and causes his car to drive off a cliff and land on some...

Well if we can't talk you into buying the fun tools, you can find similar items to that by searching for "split clamp" or "split connector clamp" and then probably the diameter of your round bar and possibly the thread pitch or diameter of the bolt. Most of the ones I see for sale appear to be...

I set the throttle plates and transfer slots adjustment just using a vacuum gauge connected to the ported vacuum. I adjust it so the gauge shows zero vacuum, but it starts to read something as soon as the throttle plates move. Easier than pulling the carb off.

I assumed when he said an oddball engine size, its already been pulled out and stroked, he's probably running an aftermarket intake and carb. And then the anti-dieseling solenoid would be long gone.

Is it dieseling? Too much timing can lead to that. High idle speed can do it, too. I have a car that does it, and I'll cheat by turning off the engine while its in gear which adds load to help slow the motor down. Then once the motor is off, put it in park.

With a mill and a lathe, you can rebuild the entire world.

No, there should not be any water anywhere near that red circled area. It would need to either be condensation from morning dew or something, it the steam would have to come from inside the motor, back up through the intake manifold, through the carb (backwards, against the direction it is...