Author: 73 T&C

I know that most of you out there will give not a whit about any version of Chrysler’s Lean Burn Spark advance system.

In fact, most people regularly ditched the entire system fairly early on and converted their cars back to Chrysler’s earlier and i…

Introduction

This is not my first attempt at repairing Automatic Temperature Control (ATC) systems. Having successfully beaten several Cadillac climate control systems into submission in the past, fear was not a determining factor in keeping me from…

It’s been almost a year since it was installed so I thought I’d start a separate thread as to how this radical change (upgrade?) is going.

The good:

Starts every frogging time
Runs a little smoother and cooler
Gas mileage about the same.
No more elec…

This is one of those “meaning to do” sniglet items for my 78 NYB that I finally got around to doing.

Readers of my main thread will remember my repair of the wiper system early on. But one thing that I’ve been meaning to do was a more permanent repair…

Anyone know about using freon with newer synthetic compressor oil?

I’ve heard using R134 in older systems with freon need to be flushed to use synthetic oil. But I’ve never heard the reverse.

I want to use R12 because the expansion valve, evaporator …

Mystery question of the day…

Recently, I had put in 8 gallons of gas in two parts while installing and setting up my Holley Sniper on my 1978 NYB. Tank was bone dry due to new in-tank pump and sender install.

Replacement sender was a match for origin…

Having trouble locating a new or very good user harmonic damper for my 78 440. It has a cast crank and the part number that I found for it was 3839482…. NLA.

Will the newer fluid filled dampers work the same? Does anyone have experience with them in …