Recent content by Smokinjoe3

Thanks for all of your responses. Residual valve found and removed from the rear port of the MC (larger reservoir). Brakes bleed. Success! Brakes work good!

Front disc, rear drum. They are single piston calipers with no markings on them to ID. How do you know if they are Ford calipers or GM? No valving of any type installed (no residual valve, no proportioning valve no metering valve). I've crawled under the car and found nothing all the way...

I acquired a 63 Galaxie recently. Previous owner did a front disc brake conversion (booster with dual master cylinder that looks like it is from an early 70s mustang, drilled slotted discs with braided lines). My test drive of the car went well and the brakes were solid. Now that I've owned the...

On top of that, I think I have a driveline vibration. The engine miss doesn't help me in narrowing the cause. The vibration gets worse with speed but does go away some when I press the clutch.

Finally got parts and some time to swap them out. I replaced the distributor, re-terminated the plug wires (went to crab style) and installed new plugs. What I found out is that I am an idiot... I double checked the wires earlier and thought they were right, but when I was re-terminating the...

I appreciate everyones response thus far. To answer the questions about the distributor cap, I think I'm going to go ahead and puchase one of the rebuilt distributors from Third Gen Automotive. The guys stated that they are timed and ready to go (never purchased from them before, so I hope...

Checked the wires.. they are connected right. You think it might still be the valve? Maybe the seat wasn't as clean as I thought? Would that cause a pop but nothing when you pull the plug wire? Or do you think it's ignition? Can you post a video on here?

Pretty positive. The cap has numbers cast into the plastic and I labeled each wire when pushing them through the tube.. But i can re-check. That cap is just a pain to deal with.

Newbie here.. I searched the forum but couldn't find the exact problem that I have, so I figured I'd post. It's long winded so bare with me. I purchased a nice original 46 Mercury a few months ago. Its an older restoration and the guy I bought it from told me that it ran good, but needed the...