Author: Rusty Muffler
rebuilt 301 vibrates at around 3k RPM or 40 mph
Getting down to the nitty gritty, I can feel the engine strobing. It has about 500 miles on it and there’s probably nothing I’m going to do about it, but what do you think it is? I figure it might be something out of balance in the torque converter? It had been sitting 9 years so maybe crud settled in one part of it? None of the cooling fins were broken.
This rubber trunk mat available for my 57 Belvedere?
Can’t seem to find it in this pattern o
f dots and texture.
58Belvedere is a genius and an asset to this forum.
Volvo heater valve worked perfectly on my 57 Belvedere and saved me more that half the cost. Thanks 58!
Where to install a manual heater shut off for my 1957 Plymouth Belvedere
I’m going to install a manual gate valve on one of the heater hoses. Does it matter which one? Red hose or black? What direction does the water flow?
flow? See picture and thanks!
Removed the many years old seat covers, here’s what I found, front seat too!
Old seat cover, rear seat on my 57 Belvedere, bottom photo, front seat too!
Ever see brake booster like this?
The odd brake noise was actually coming from an air inlet on this booster. Says Bendix Aircraft Corp on it. The inlet has a sort of coarse brill fabric under a screen with a snap ring. The sound would come from it intermittently when at a complete stop. It sounded like metal to metal but couldn’t be. I haven’t found any info on this and there’s nothing in the FSM. They list a Bendix rebuild kit on Ebay but doesn’
t look right and is $275. for about 4…