Recent content by NoahVail

Many things to love about this engine. Plug wire paths aren't any of them.

I don't think I ever threw mine up here. 292 w/ column shift BW/Ford LD. Backstory is I met a sister on Ancestry and went up to visit her in MD. This was tarped, sitting on her farm - but had spent months uncovered w/ the top shredded. Her uncle bought it new but had passed. His widow...

Yes they were. Turns out what i thought was also a parts store branded one was another cloyes. The new parts plague is effecting every manufacturer. I'll be telling their service guy's about all of this, and see where it leads.

Full update: I just did some back and forth testing, and the new chain has the usual 5 degree's or so of slop. Way less than the last new one i put in. I did some back to back testing, and from my rough eye, it's about half as much slop. I'm going to reassemble the engine with this new one and...

Quick update. I got my new chain from the store and first impressions are good. It has less slop. I'll semi-reassemble the setup with both so i can get some quantifiable results.

It's either i got a bum chain out of the box, or that this engine was line bored.

Sorry for the late reply. It's just a bog standard stock chain out of a low pro 390 in a 1969 ford XL. The chain i know is not a double roller. The chain i took out had a pretty aggressive amount of slop, and so did the one i put in. When putting a timing light on it, the indicator jumps all...

My replacement set i put in was a full steel set. When you buy an undersized timing set, do they oversize the gears or the chain? I still have the original set i pulled off this engine and the gears perfectly match the set i pulled off.

When i installed the new stock timing set, i did put it in as a complete set. I was remarking that the set i pulled off this engine that may need an undersized timing set still had the factory nylon gear installed. When you undersize a timing set do they enlarge the gears, or somehow make the...

I have a 1969 ford FE that has been bored over sometime in it's life and now the timing chain needs to be replaced. I bought a brand new stock cloyes chain and stuck it in. It had miles of slop. Slightly worse than the one i took out. I contacted their customer support and the service manager...

Carb has me stumped. Looks like 2100 except the front bowl seems huge. I'll have my son look at it. edit: Was looking at the bowl wrong. I was seeing the front of the carb and thinking it was the top of a large bowl. It's def a 2100. Son brought out the last 2100 he bought (yesterday I think)...

Ha. I feel you. I somehow wound up being the keeper of pics. I'm also the youngest of the cousins & born late to my parents - also have boxes of unidentifiable people.

My 1961 Sunliner has an oddball transmission and I need a new slip yoke. It's a 292 w/ a LD 3 speed so no need for hi-pro. I've carefully measured it w/ calipers, got the numbers that driveshaft sites want. Can someone recommend a shop I can send these dimensions to and get a good yoke back...

Y'all are the beast!

My goal here is to get a new slip yoke and rear seal. I need help identifying a 50s/60s 3 speed, sideloader, non-synchro 1st, non OD transmission. Output shaft is 28 splines. Slip Yoke has 1.5" OD (son reinstalled drive shaft before I could measure the yoke). The only number I have is...