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    Look what the wife bought for me

    Wow, beautiful car. 63 Fairlane is a favorite of mine, too.
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    Harmonic Balancer D20E-6313-A2A

    Update: looks like Dorman had a bad run of parts. I installed a Pioneer p/n DA-3022 and the vibration went away. Thanks for your help! Now on to the oil leak.
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    Harmonic Balancer D20E-6313-A2A

    Spring break rolled around and my grandson and I finally had some time to replace the timing chain on the Mustang. It appears to be an original, 55 k mile car. The nylon cam gear looked good and the chain had only a little slop in it. While we had it torn down we replaced the harmonic balancer...
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    NEED ALL MEMBERS TO RESPOND PLEASE!

    73 coupe, 302
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    PopsProject First Time Valve Cover Removal

    (Late) Update, unfortunately life got in the way of fun and I didn’t get as much done this past winter as I had hoped but we got a few things done. We installed the intake and rebuilt and installed the carb. I removed the excess emissions stuff and replaced all the hoses. I didn’t get around to...
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    PopsProject First Time Valve Cover Removal

    secluff, great info, thanks!  I’ll keep looking.  And I’ll check the timing chain and sprocket. 71PJ, gears and O/D transmission are planned for later, probably a 5 psd manual.  I agree, 3.55s are a good set up.  Had them years ago in a 4 speed car.  This car came with 3.00 gears but the tach...
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    PopsProject First Time Valve Cover Removal

    Thanks! 71PJ, I’m trying to verify that this is the original engine while planning some easy performance upgrades.  My searches only revealed color code stripes on valve springs except one thread that said something about orange performance springs.  Was hoping to hear “Yeah, it’s a 73 302” or...
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    PopsProject First Time Valve Cover Removal

    First, I’m a newbie, first post.  I recently retired and it’s been 30 years or more since I did any car work and then it was mostly GM products. I picked up a 73, 302 coupe for my grandson and I to work on.  It is supposedly a 55k mile car. We’ve replaced the original FoMoCo shocks and swapped...
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