The last thing that came was my gages.
This should have gone in the body section but I was on a roll so here we
go. These are all made by
Autometer
and are the Ultra-Lite series. We have some that are mechanical and
electrical. The mechanical ones are "water temp", "oil
pressure", transmission temp". The electrical ones are
"gas gage", "speedometer" and "
tachometer". The speedometer is nice because it's programmable. All
you do is tell it what size tire you have, what gear ratio and it
figures out the rest. You can change tire size and all you have to do is
reprogram it...sweeeet! It also has an odometer and trip meter. The
odometer doesn't loose information even if the battery is disconnected.
The small gages are 2 1/16" in diameter and the larger ones are 3
3/8" in diameter.
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Now for the hell of it, I emailed a
couple of companies that I've spent LOTS of money with and asked them if
they would send me a t-shirt (for free). One of them told me to send them
my name, addy and size so they could ship one out. This company was Dart
(which I've spent thousands with) which I give props to. I guess it
doesn't hurt to ask now does it. Thanks guys....it fits great. I'll have
to try my luck with a few more companies because you never know....
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Now that the heads are back together and
the one seat fixed, I
needed to find out how long the pushrods were going to be. I had to many
factors involved in trying to calculate the length. First my valves were
.100" longer than stock ones. Now if that was the only thing different,
no problem but I also had a smaller base circle cam (.900" in
diameter) along
with longer roller lifters. Now lots of companies sell adjustable
pushrods but I thought I could make one. The first thing I needed was
some tubing and after working with my brake lines just the other day, I
thought this would work fine. After measuring with a tape measure and
learning that about 7" would be more than enough, out came the
Dremel to cut a piece of tubing. Now how was I going to make this into a
pushrod that would work with those heavy springs? I wasn't....I was
wanting it to work with some softer springs for testing only.
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By tapping the tubing (cutting threads
inside the tube), I could use a
screw at each end. This is a 6-32 tap and I had a hard time with this
stainless tubing because it has a seem inside that travels the whole
length. After a few clicks-and-pops (now this is a bad thing to hear
from any tap and it's even worse when it's this small) I had enough
threads inside to hold my screws.
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