Recent content by Norse

Hey Glennb Nothing much has moved other than the car a couple of times. Got to take it to a local "end of summer" cruise-in. Beyond that I have been attacked by life and all that goes with it (work, illness, births, deaths, etc..), so I haven't been able to do much at all. Though that should...

I will admit I am totally unfamiliar with the funky (to me) torsion bar set up that the Imperial/J-body has. Worked on many B-bodies and done my fair share of cutting front springs and/or installing lowering spring. How does someone lower the J-body design (if it's possible)? I don't want...

As a follow up; I was pulling the front disc rotors so I can redo the bearings and found yet another ground strap! If you can't see, it goes from the frame to one of the transmission bell bolts. :p

Mostly questions & looking for answers. Background; 1981 318 (Imperial), low miles (under 80k, but not exactly known), sat for at least a decade, FI long removed, currently running a Direct Connection/Mopar electronic distributor and Edelbrock 650 carb. Had a 750 Holley on it at one point...

I have a friend who runs a shop in Mojave, CA that originally came from Northern England. He left the UK because of the snow and cold. Right after the first snows hit here and he was laughing at me I got a phone call that went something like "F&%king hell mate!!! What the f&^^ is this white...

I will take a moment to be very grateful to the daughters of a close family whose father was a fallen firefighter. They gave me his '99 Suburban for they knew I'd take care of it and it would take care of me. I know that 4-wheel drive does not mean 4-wheel stop. Black ice is evil. And that this...

I know most of the country East of the Rockies are saying "so what?!?" and "big deal!" about the snow the West Coast is getting. But when you are born and raised where the worst weather is a rain storm, snow can stop everything. Now this California boy moved to Washington to retire and enjoy...

Heya Poly I was. Volare77 (Mike) already hooked me up with a set. Thanks though!!

From what I understand one of the previous owners who swapped the 650 Edelbrock for the 750 Double Pumper paid the extra and got the Lokar throttle and kick-down cable kits (far left of pic). Though somewhat expensive they do work great and I don't have to deal with mix-n-matching factory...

Rustyroger; :D

With where I live and the weather we get I can see that issue. My plan is looking more and more like I will gut everything and build a modern digital dash (Dakota Digital or maybe just an Ipad mount).

I also wonder if this is left over from one of the previous owners trying to get the factory FI system to work. One write up I read was on how that system was prone to outside RF interference and I can see some back-yard hack adding more grounding to try and alleviate the issue.

I hear ya, Slant6. One of my former lives was as a BMW motorcycle mechanic. Nothing like having to add ground wires to brand new motorcycles that were supposedly tested at the factory.

I used to be a motorcycle mechanic and ran my own shop for a hot second, so we are on the same page. :cool: Funny thing about the valve covers; I went to that big Mopar auction in South Dakota last June and even though I had zero small block powered cars I just HAD to have those valve covers...