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Dr. Diff is great to deal with. Good prices and if you aren't sure of what you need, call him and he will help you out. He knows this stuff inside and out right off the top of his head.

Around here the demo derby queers have pretty much ruined all the old cars. They're pretty serious about it too. Before the older fleet ford crown vics started being cheap to pick up at auction, they were stripping and smashing low miles show quality survivor stuff. Even going out of state to...

I only ever saw one slant six throw a rod. It was in an '80s pickup my buddy was junking. He wanted to see if it would blow up, thought it may go just from holding it wide open. After a few minutes I trickled a handful of small gravel in the carb. Finally it threw a rod out thru the block and...

If it's a power lock, (two halves that bolt together) the thrust block is two little t shaped buttons that go in from each side and are held together with a roll pin. Often the roll pin is broken and they stick to the end of the axle and fall into the rear end when pulling the axles. At least...

Good looking ride. I saw that car on craigslist not long ago and was pondering it myself. Looks real clean.

I bolted a box from a '66 Belvedere right on my car pitman arm and all. I found a couple u joints off of steering columns with the same splines at the junk yard and made a bit longer shaft to go between the box and column.

For the average person an 8 3/4 is going to be perfectly fine. Quickly getting harder and more $ to find though. I wouldn't waste my time with an 8 1/4 or an 8.8 ford. The 9 inch is nice because it is easy to setup and has plenty of aftermarket stuff available including beefier center sections...

The trucks were never 4 3/4 bolt circle. Either 4 1/2 or 5 1/2. A truck housing is a little wide though. Unless its a super deal, I'd keep looking for something narrower. I had a 68-70 b body 8 3/4 in my car for many years with a set of 11x2 1/2 drums and backing plates from a '77 W100...

I've had the contacts in my turn signal switch get crusty and cause em not to work. I cleaned em up and they worked fine again. Ive also had the all the sockets in the back get corroded and none of the rear lights worked. And as mentioned above, check your grounds.

You won't regret doing a bigblock four speed.:D

I used an A body hump in my diplomat. Took a little massaging and a little trimming along the bottom and back edge but it wasn't too bad. Worst for me was at the back where the floor curves up to the tunnel, the hump had a pretty good gap in that area. I split the difference by bending the...

I noticed when I was renewing my registration online that I could check vanity plate availability and it shows you what It looks like. Spent a little time checking out some combos and was supprised what was available.

My local parts stores are terrible, any thing I ever need they have to order like spark plugs, air filter, brake pads, alternator, etc. The only thing I can rely on walkng out of napa with is an oil filter, advance seems to have more parts on stock, but the employees are just job fillers that...

That's what I usually do. I go to the local junk yard and get u-joint style couplers and make my own adapters. A lot of times there are racks out of front wheel drives laying around I take a factory coupler with me to try on whatever I find just to make sure it will match my splines, they...

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just go this back on the road today 440, a833, 3.23 8 3/4

had one put in my 4 door last year by safelite. cost me $234.69 installed. they even came to the house and installed it while i was at work.

i'd go 40 if they are for a big block

never did get to the e brake issue yet. i've been kind of focused on putting the engine together. but i was just going to weld a piece of pipe through the connector at the proper angle and rig up an extension for the cable off the pedal. i'll have to shorten the big cable hoop from the drums but...

what are you guys doing for the emergency brake? my sub-frame connectors are right where my cables ran up from the rear.

i love it! i have a 69 fury thats going to get the same treatment, but i plan on keeping it as low as possible with 1/2 ton full time axles to use 4 1/2 inch bolt wheels

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this should fit an '85 diplomat right?

did you mean that they put chev engines in the mopars? thats what they do around here. a few months ago one saw my '73 newport at the gas station and asked if id sell, he told me he didn't need the engine he runs chevy engines in the derby cars. the derby guys are bad around my way, they wiped...

hello from sw pa. i found this sight while looking for diplomat parts. m bodies aren't as plentiful as they used to be around here. i'm looking to do some much needed upgrades to my old diplomat and locate some odds and ends. my '85 dip