Order your Dodge Mirror Pair - 1AMRP00916 today at 1AAuto.com. Shop safely with us online or call 888-844-3393 and buy the quality part your car or truck needs today. Free ground shipping! Provided by h-body.org. Updates since are in green. Updates since are in red. Updates since are in purple. Diagnosing And Repairing Faulty Instrument Gauges and How To Repair and Diagnose Instrument Gauges; Get Engauged: So you think your oil pressure does not fluctuate? Gauge Rage Mopar gauge repair. Mopar Technical Tips and Links. How to search this page While holding down the CTRL (control) key on the keyboard, press the F keyboard key. Then type in the term you are looking for in the search box that appears in your web browser. There are up and down arrows in the search box to use to search for additional instances of the term. There is much sage advice available providing technical lessons on how to keep these Mopars on the road in one form or another. Use a fist maul or a sledge hammer to tighten the center screw on the puller. A lot of times you will hear a pop and find that the hub has popped loose. If it does not work the first time, rinse lather and repeat!” Brian S. It will make removal next time less troublesome.“ Plymouth Club Tech: “How to remove a rear brake drum and hub”CJ3. B Jeep Reference. Don has lots of good engine building tips given with the average Mopar fan in mind: that is, having wallet's with money restrictions installed. For example. building a Mopar 4. Many mechanical parts also swap across the other Mopar body platform styles, i. A- Body, C- Body. Here are some pointers. Pitcher. Jeffrey Diamond's . Moog Idler Arm Install Directions Mopar NationalsFix and Update (Thanks to Daniel M. To use a dual wire field on these cars, just put a ground wire from one of the two fields to the case and plug the other in as normal. It works perfectly and the alternator does not know the difference. The original regulator will function fine in this fashion The more adventuresome individual could ground the one terminal the same as the original one is, but a simple ground on the one terminal is the safest. To do an Alternator Test remove the field wire from the alternator. Clip a jumper wire from the field terminal on the Alternator (that you just pulled the small wire off of) and clip the other end to the large post on the alternator (battery). Start the car and see if it charges. If it does then the alternator is fine. If not then the alternator is Kaput. Check and see with a test light is there power coming to the regulator (ignition key ON position) (small terminal on the side of the old style mechanical regulators). If there is, then see if there is any power coming down the wire to the alternator. Most common problem is a bad ground on the regulator case, (rusty hold down screws or they are stripped). Unlike a generator system they only control voltage. Current handled is built into the unit so testing is much easier then with a generator system. The 6. 3's are different. These sizes are for 1. Some options for a 1. Plymouth Fury or 1. Dodge Polara (C- Body size Mopar) include 1) 2. R1. 5s on the back and 2. R1. 5s in front on 1. Magnum 5. 00s and. Chrysler New Yorker). Coker Tire original equipment and contemporary tire sizes: 1. How to Measure Wheel Backspacing. Tire size and rim calculator from 1. Wheel Technical Information, including: How to Measure Bolt Patterns; How to Measure Wheel Backspace or Offset; How to Determine Vehicle Fitment; Determine Wheel Caliper Clearance. Typical Lug Nut Torque Specifications; Wheel Terminology; Modular Wheel Inspection and Maintenance; and Modular Wheel Leak Detection. Stockton Wheel has a form to measure clearances for correct tire- wheel- backspace. Use the section width of the tire your going to use, not the tread width. Thanks!). Instructions for installing windshield washer package Model 3. Part # 2. 49. 6 5. Plymouth and Dodge (exc '8. Terry Lynch. This should be correct for all V8 engines (except HEMI) in B bodies for 1. I am not sure about other years). Incidentally, the right mount (Pioneer P/N 6. V8's (again, except HEMI) for all models except A bodies. NAPA lists nothing to fit our cars, their '6. Auto Zone can order the 6.
RT for $1. 0. 4. 9 and stocks them in their warehouse. The LT mount 6. 02. Pioneer), but normally is $1. They can't give me a production or release date. Their LT mount is #2. Mancini Racing lists nothing. Poly motors. But Laysons lists both mounts and has them in stock. However, they are a bit pricier. I ordered the LT mount from them. Their part numbers are SR- M1. RT and SR- M1. 60. LT. All of these mounts are using rubber insulators. Thanks, Scott! May 2. Wally Breer reports rubber mounts for the 3. Sealed Power: Part #'s 2. Thanks, Wally! How to Find True Compression Ratios by Bill Cole. After crimping the wire to the connector, flow some solder into the wire- connector junction to complete the task. I found these replacement connectors at a NAPA store for a whole lot less than I saw them bid for on E- Bay. The part numbers are as follows: 7. These should fit any '6. All about Chrysler charging systems and Mopar Voltage Regulators! Unless they have changed NAPA sells one that is very expensive but it does not look anything like the original. Do not use the one that Mopar Performance sells. It is for racing only and never shuts off and. They do suggest using an electronic VR if you change to electronic. I’m not sure it’s really necessary. However I always change the VR to the electronic type if for no other reason it gets rid of the flickering amp needle and instrument cluster lights. I haven’t talked to them in a while. MORE choices in Mopar disc brake conversions: 1. A body Mopars and 1. A- body spindles versus 1. B,F,J,M,R- body spindles, which argues that you CAN use 1. Up spindles for disc conversions in early B Body Mopars. Later confirmed by AR Engineering in an article on how to adapt the big 1. Cordobas onto earlier Mopars. To remove the drums from the hub there is a tool that slides over the stud and cuts it's shank off releasing the drum. The problem is you have to replace the studs. One caution trying to hammer or press the studs out I have seen people warp hubs doing this and I have seen people get away with it completely. But to do it right the studs need to be drilled out and swedged back in by a machine shop. A special swaging tool in a hydraulic press is the procedure. Mopar tapered axle rear brake conversion on early Mopar (pre- 1. Front brake hose for 1. Plymouth Fury is Brakeware 8. When pulling the tapered axles out once I did have an interesting problem. I was a good thing I did, one needed to be replaced so I replaced both. We pulled the axles and chunk. We found the thrust blocks that should have stayed in the chunk apparently had stuck to the axles and dropped down into the differential case. We pulled the chunk, found the thrust blocks, reinstalled them and put it back together withoug a problem. Having a thurst block out of place keeping the axle from going in. Try not to put too much pressure on the seal when installing the axle. There is an inner seal in the differential case that can be damaged. If everything is apart it is a good time to replace the seal. You can get zinc chromate in a boat / outboard parts department.- - Jimmy. Is your Mopar's gas tank sending unit float leaking? Sadly, mother Mopar in her less- than- wise support of older Mopars, has discontinued the Mopar float. But sneak into your local Ford dealer and get a Ford brass float; it fits right in perfectly. The Ford part number I have is COAZ- 9. B Float Asy. Practice safe fuel intake by getting a new Mopar fuel filter sock to attach to your Mopar's gas tank sending unit. Try asking your Mopar dealer for part number 0. TA2. 75. 98. 95. One of these part numbers should provide the solution. DChrysler has apparently discontinued these parts. Be sure to measure your filter sock and go to the Ford dealer and they will tell you which one will match your filter.! Then turn on the ignition switch and if the gauge goes to full, the sending unit is bad. If it doesn't go to full, it may be a bad gauge or wiring. Touch it briefly to ground to see if the gauge moves. Leaving it grounded while you go to see if the gauge moved might damage the gauge. You could also attach a longer lead to the sending unit wire so you can see the gauge while you ground it. The Ford design picks up parallel to the tank, unlike the Mopar sending unit, but the truck pickup still draws off the bottom of the gas tank; as a bonus the Ford item utilizes a 3/8ths size line. One person tested a 1. Chrysler 3. 00 sending unit and found Full = 5. Ohms; 3/4 = 1. 2. Ohms; 1/2 = 1. 9. Ohms; 1/4 = 2. 9 Ohms; Empty = 5. Ohms. Contact me and I’ll give credit.) Jeff C. A good, original sender he tested with a digital meter came up with 1. Ohms full, and 7. Ollie adds: “7. 3 ohm empty and 1. Auto Meter.”. Adding seat belts to your 1. The aftermarket seat belts from Julianos are a three point harnesses that come with a mount for the shoulder harness loop that I welded to the inside of the door post. Drill a matching hole through the trim cover for the bolt and mount the retractor and buckle to the stock mounts on the floor. The \6 hose has the proper pre- formed bends. One replacement aftermarket water outlet to look for is the Four Seasons brand part number 8. The upper radiator hose connects to this water outlet. The sediment that stays in the radiator will eat it up if you let it dry. When you go to use it a year or so later, it will leak, you take it to the radiator shop, they tell you it needs. A lot of effort and investment gone to waste. The best thing to do is to leave a mixture of antifreeze and water in the radiator when your storing it. Use a couple of short pieces of hose, make a plug for them, put a cap on it, and then throw it on the shelf. It will keep for years, and always be good when you go to use it. The next alternative is to have it cleaned and roded before storing in, and then it will keep for a long time also. Put a mark on the driveshaft where you can see it. If Sure. Grip put a mark on one tire, if not Sure. Grip put a mark on both tires where assistant(s) can see them. Put the transmission in neutral and crawl under the car. If Sure. Grip rotate one tire one revolution forward and count the drive shaft revolutions, if not Sure. Grip get two assistants and have each rotate a tire one revolution forward and count driveshaft revolutions. This method never lies. Tags/buildsheets sometimes do. Olds FAQ - - Suspension. Basically, suspension systems are. Any distortions of the suspension. Note that I use the term stiffening as opposed to strengthening, as. I find this is the. Note that this same. While this does improve handling, it. Stiffer springs can cause the. Unfortunately, even the best tires in the world have a difficult. As another rule of thumb, the. Perhaps. this is because of the lack of availability of skid pads and related. Or a road. course at ones disposal to compare modifications to lap times. As an example, to some, good handling. I kid you not). We've. Saturn ads where the gleeful owner exclaims. Now, I've driven a Saturn, and good. I would use to describe one. As an example, many drivers would not feel very secure when driving a. For this second driver, a. If the vast majority of the roads where. Whereas, if you live in an area with lots of twisty. A good handling. street car must address the roads shortcomings in their. Torque causes right rear to lift, hence it's spins more. With posi, the left wheel will still. An old trick is to lower the right. Since the right rear will lift, slightly more air in the right. The rear suspension has its own roll center. A line drawn. between these two points determines the roll axis. With double. A- arm front suspensions, like the A and F bodied GMs, a roll center. Not only does the roll. Having the roll center above. GM A- body advantage, its an advantage (and. The second line should intersect the same points on the lower. You have just drawn lines describing the angles of. On a stock 6. 4- 7. A- body, these lines will intersect. Now. draw a line from the point determined by the centerline of the tire. Continue. this same line so it intersects the centerline of the automobile. A- bodies have a roll center below ground level. The F- body knuckle is 1. Oversteer is. when the car turns more than you expect. At low power, like driving at 3. Turn the steering wheel 2. X degrees. Turn the wheel 4. X degrees. This type of behavior makes up 9. This is our. collective expectation, built up through driving cars and using. Traction is non- linear with force: it is asymtotal. Kinetic. energy is quadratic with speed. Turning, the cross product of these. They are designed. So the driving enthusiast has to work to undo the. Oversteer is an unstable condition, and almost always. Ford Fiestas. These. After a few years of driving it, I would come in to the. Under WOT, the car would. A 2. 0mm bar was put on the. I changed from 1. Then I ran over a deer. On entry I. would understeer as before, but at a higher speed. The exit was much. My changes had induced . At a particular spot in the. I would ease up on the gas just a bit and pull the wheel right. The car would snap violently from. Strong. strong oversteer, with the car reacting much more than the steering. Ok in this condition, as it allowed me to fly. Failing to get back on. The reason is that the degree of. Each company has a different idea of the. Relatively soft springs work best with a stiffer. HO Racing's approach), while stiffer springs match. Hotchkis, Global West). If you bought. stiff springs from one source and stiff sway- bars from another the. Most likely it would still improve. In the worst case you would. Also, you. can't go only by the sway- bar diameter, the metallurgy of the bar and. If I recall, somewhere in. Diameter), Rear Stabilizer Bar (. I hesitated a while before posting this because it is. But after all, knowledge is always worth something whether. A well- designed front suspension for a car should keep the tires. The toe is designed to. Ackerman geometry) but this is a small effect, and it should. Some creative soul figured out that the swap to a. B- body spindle improves this particular problem. This means that the tips of the. This is. built into the design of the car and cannot easily be changed, so. First of all, the. On other cars I've worked on (mostly. Mopars), the steering arms on the front spindles also point backwards. This means that the tie- rod ends stay almost. All well and good so far. Unfortunately on my car, and therefore. GM A- bodies, the steering arms on the front spindles point. This means that when the. So the tie- rod ends have to pull to an angle. That in turn will shorten the total distance. This is just the. Ackerman geometry should do, and this will make our. While replacing the centre- link I also. On my car, the passenger side tie- rod ends were. I. tracked this assymmetry down to the fact that the idler arm mounts. Your left front wheel and right front. I guess that even after I finish putting in the tall. Supreme, even though I already have. Hotchkis springs, KYB shocks, poly bushings, a 1 1/4. Maybe. Oldsmobile got all the good engineers, and the ones who drooled out of. GM stuff. What. this means is that as the wheel moves upward it transitions into. Also when the suspension fully extends it will. The thing is that it isn't. I did this. to my 1. The later model spindles. These spindles. were common to many GM cars including A, B, F, and X bodies. The spindle has better rotor/. It also makes the car transition into negative camber. It is more noticable in extension. With the better roll center and the negative camber in the turn. This can be a problem if your running a big. I had in my 1. 97. I think my largest shim pack after the. All in all it is a great setup but I highly. Some handling sacrifices have to be. The angled lower arm hinge line is. This takes some of the jarring . Since the. pitman arm on the steering box is closer to the centerline of the car than the. The pitman arm- center. The design can be made to work, but as is with anything. Almost any aftermarket spindle will have a removable steering arm. You could have the entire front. How do I know. all this? Right now, the winds of change are blowing real hard around here. Grace's racing plans are caught up in them. We did a LOT. to the front suspension when we were planning to return to . If you're. interested in what's been done so far, stop by our web pages, and click. Now that the wheels are at full droop, note. Now put a jack under one lower control arm and slowly jack it. Watch the tyre/wheel as you do this, you will see the tire go. That. change prevents the tire from staying flat on the road and gripping. On any well- engineered. Mopar's I've owned, for. This is. how I first noticed how bad the geometry is! You can see the tops of. The upper arms specifically are much wider. The spindles will work with a few mods which. A bodies. To make them. B. J.'s. You would have to take a few measurments as to bushing. If I'm correct about. The. front will work with some work but that's a whole other thread. These cars use the frame to just in front of where the. The 1. 97. 3- 7. 7's are. There's a company in Walker. Missouri (Dirt Works) that builds an IMCA Modified chassis with the . Now some are now beginning to build Modifieds with the . In our situation, we could replace the arm with a. Ackerman adjustment. Before they allowed aftermarket. Catalina with disc brakes. These. also had a replaceable steering arm, and a higher spindle level effectively. Believe me, people spend a lot of time. Ackerman on their cars here, Lakeside Speedway (1/2 mile asphalt. Against the. cookie- cutter late- model Monte's, T- Birds and GP's we'll really stand out! In fact, GM went to a common ball. F- body, the 1. 97. A/G body, and the 1. B- body. cars all using the same ball joints top and bottom. The bolt holes point upwards, rather than sideways. I saw this in Car Craft, and. I've never matched this up myself, so I could be wrong. Technically. I suppose . The factory. used a flaring type tool to ensure the lower a- arm bushings didn't pop. But if they were replaced once, then whoever. Or, the bozo at the factory just didn't do it, so who knows? For example, sway bar size. Tires, wheel size, spring rate. As a result, it is difficult to provide a general. Your best bet would be to. PST) and get a complete package (bars, springs. I realize. this is expensive to undertake all at once, but consider buying the. Start with wheels and tires, add. Be careful, however, as. For. example, one thing you don't want to do is add an 1 3/8 front bar with. First step, install a set of KYB Gas- A- Just. Whereas the Monroes, etc. For the. price, it's hard to beat the KYB's performance. Install a rear sway bar. Even a factory. bar will provide a fairly neutral condition with the. You will be amazed at the difference this. At this point, I would add. If you are still. If it still understeers more than you. If a suspension rebuild is necessary, I would. NOT using urethane bushings. It has been my experience that the hard. And in hard. cornering situations on the street (with ruts, bumps. A 7. 0 series tire sidewall. Although the tradeoff is a harsher. Tire pressures also have a significant effect. And are often overlooked on. To reduce understeer, increase the. For. swaybars try Addco (sp?) on the low end and Moroso on the high end. Addco are repackaged by a lot of places. Global West. If you put ultra stiff bushings. Notice how Hotchkis etc. If a control arm is only supposed to. So what is flexing now? He discusses the various types of suspension. He says that rubber is used by OEM. He says that polyurethane bushings are an. Regarding the increase in vibration transmitted to. What is a. rough ride to one person is quite acceptable to another, so this is a. For my tastes the. But then I found the car in stock. As I said, it's very largely a matter of personal taste, when. On the racetrack there's an objective. On the street its all about feeling good. Polyurathane seems. O. K. The problem is they do tend to bind. Many. people assume a stiff ride is a good handling one. If it were. true, simply bolt solid steel rods in instead of shocks. Solid. bushings (Herb Adams' Nyliner and Global West's Delalum) are supposed. This yeilds a shift more responsive suspension. There. is a cost to this. The shock is transfered to the chassis of the car, after. In race applications, road racing or drag racing. When the car leans in a turn.
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