I gotta be honest here. Had plans, had beers with the neighbours, plans evaporated, feeling good, nothing done on the cars. Cooking some steaks now and expecting a couple more beers. Damn it's nice having good neigbours ........ life is a huge bit of "all right" at the moment
Cheers and bottoms up
-- Edited by DB Cooper on Saturday 19th of April 2014 06:45:33 PM
Well maybe not inspiration, but went to look at a '56 truck, with a 354 Hemi as well as other stuff. Had to go evaluate the situation, and try to figure how to get it back to Ontario, cheap and fast.
Sunday Hannu and I went and woke up the sleepy little town of Baden.
Today our host was Gilles (gazoo) . We had a great time shooting the crap with Gilles
and checking out all of his stashes of cars and parts. Hannu (dodge 38) bought a few things that Gilles had kicking around
for a 38 dodge car. Man how much can one guy take bring surrounded by dodge parts and 2 dodge guy's!!!
Was a great day and had some fun again meeting another great ont rodder. Thanks Gilles
Thanks for posting Joe!
It was nice spending some time with both you guys. I apologize for all the Mopar stuff, but there was a few non-Mopar items here, for you non believers (or in denial).
As always, you guys were great! Kept the wife away for a couple hours, and she's pleased with the outcome. It was a win-win situation.
Again, thanks for the kind words, much appreciated.
Hannu and I met up with Slim Sat morning at the Flamboro swap meet.
Was only a small market but still managed to pick a few items up
Myself I found a 36 ford banjo steering wheel cracked to hell but priced right
and desierable , Slim found some cool stuff and Hannu found some much needed tools
Slim took us to breakfast and it was a great morning Thanks Slim.
Got the body back on my truck sat evening Life is good.
Was my pleasure Joe and very nice to meet Hannu also. it was a small market but I managed to score an original filcooltor beehive bypass filter not a speedway knock off . Got home with it and the girl friend tried to abscond it for some art. that was a fine banio you picked up, Good buy. Made some spring clips out off some old banding to hold my window trim in tight so it don't rattle and also sprayed the turn signal mechanism on my spare steering column to replace the one I have in the truck so i don't look like a geezer driving around. thank you Joe and Hannu for a great morning .
With SPRING looking like a reality , I got a little zip in my step and cleaned up the shop a little , installed a 5 disc player in there , put on some CCR , caught some tunes , re-installed my " Classic Chevy Drive " sign at the end of my laneway ( I live in the Boonies )-- Then I fired up the ' 51 and took it for a little blast and listened to some of its tunes from the " split - six duals -- LIFE IS GOOD !!! All the Best Everyone !!! ---- fleet 51
Didnt do nuthin. Dam. Rained and temp dropped . I did press the button and open the garage door for a peek. Cars still clean and waiting to go for a run.
Making a list of parts i am going to need then off to see "Coffee Charlie."
I saw them at the Toronto Car show. They had a booth. When my son bought the headers I said we should get them. Header leaks suck. But he didn't want to spend the money. He is 15 so live and learn. We installed the gaskets from the box. Leaked. I had a spare set of Mr Gasket header gaskets. They leaked worse. Installed the RemFlex. Zero leaks from start. I was almost about to buy some locking header bolts but they were $50 for 12 bolts. Since we changed them 3x he learned. DON"T BE CHEAP.,lol He is happy and so am I. Oh and we replaced the collectors to even though they did not leak. Just don't feel like doing this all over again.
The problem is not the gaskets, it's the headers themselves. I've never bought a set that I didn't have to weld up and regrind the flange openings. Most headers are machined after welding the tubes on from the factory, and it's this "weld" lip that does the sealing. Problem is that on some heads, there may only be 1/32 of the lip covering the exhaust port of the head and that's where they will leak. I like to see at least 3/16 of contact.
I bought a set of SBC block huggers off a friend. He sold them because he couldn't get them to seal (at the head). I tried them with a set of header gaskets I had (brand new) and they leaked for me too. At this point I decided to cut the flange between ports on one side so the pipes could twist a bit (if needed) in order to get a seal. Didn't work. I then took a closer look at the gaskets (just regular header gaskets) and decided the port size of these particular gaskets, although for a SBC, were too big for these headers. I bought a set of regular header gaskets (just the cheapies from Mr Gasket) with much smaller port holes and never had a problem again. If I remember right, the former owner even tried copper gaskets and they still leaked.
The problem (especially on older engines) is that header are made to fit a variety of cylinder head designs. If you buy a header for a small block Dodge, they usually fit 318-340-360 but the problem is these engines all have different port sizes, and the larger the port, the more leaks usually occur.
And no it wasn't a mouse
