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By Rebelliousengineering® - 16 Years Ago
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Well today I drove my fairlane to a transmission shop which ended up being a bit of a hassle I hate hate traffic yet I live in LA and driving from my house to the tranny shop 30 miles away took over an hour. It started as I hit traffic the engine area became hot and because I haven't put an electric fuel pump in yet I got vapor lock and had to push my beast to the center divider and popped the hood waiting 15 min to try to re start her, luckily she fired back up and I drove the rest of the 15 miles to the trans shop. The guy was real cool he waited after they closed to receive my car and he ended up having a couple Y blocks being worked on another 57 fairlane and a 54 truck so it seems like the place was the right choice for the work I pick up my car with in the week and ill let you all know how that works out
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By pegleg - 16 Years Ago
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We are not having this problem in Indiana right now. It was 16 degrees this morning, so vapor lock was not an issue. Frozen door locks and fingers were.
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By Canadian Hot Rodder - 16 Years Ago
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Frank, stop your wining!  If you can't handel the cold, move to Texas with Jim or Ted!  We hit -2 deg. F the other day! Good news id I finnaly got out to the garage and rebuilt my Holley!  Bad news is I have to wait until spring to see how it relly works!  Rob
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By Rebelliousengineering® - 16 Years Ago
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i guess i really don't have a problem because i can drive my car all year long no seasons to mess with, although when it rains for about a week once a year i don't drive my car because people don't know how to drive in the rain since it doesn't happen often out here.
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By pegleg - 16 Years Ago
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Rob, What is that, like minus 567 degrees Celcius? Besides, it's a Holley, you know it won't work! 
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By Moz - 16 Years Ago
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g'day guys now thats why i couldnt live in america or canada its too damn cold at -2 its to cold to eat icecream the english have it worse though that cold & raining all the time no wonder australia is the lucky country we have sun sand surf & y-blocks you couldnt ask for anything more in life except a little rain sometimes.
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By pegleg - 16 Years Ago
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Think of it this way Moz, at minus C, it's 29 degrees here!
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By Moz - 16 Years Ago
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yeah you've got a point frank but in my case if you take it to the other extreme in geelong the other day we had 43c so over 100f is too much to think about
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By PWH42 - 16 Years Ago
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This morning in central Missouri it is -2F,so your 43C sounds pretty good to me right now.
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By Moz - 16 Years Ago
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your right paul funny thing is we've had mid 30's all week & today we got rain & 14C its gone from summer to winter in 1 day but up in lon's neck of the woods their having floods & im in a drought & on water restrictions detailing is interesting when you cant use water.
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By f-100 bob - 16 Years Ago
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Stop whining, I'm in mid minnesota we have not been above zero for three days. wind chills of 30 to 45 below and temps -13 to -25 for lows... f-100 bob P.S. Sorry guys, I know sometimes i get off topic - just that it's boring waiting for spring !!!! will try to stay to stay more focused in the future....
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By Rebelliousengineering® - 16 Years Ago
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I was suppose to pick up the car on Friday and have not received the phone call to pick her up and I've been busy with work so I’m going to calling the guy tomorrow to see when it will be done I know that he is probably having a bit of a problem setting up the pedal pressure on the transmission because I am using a custom linkage I made in auto shop in about 10min to switching the 2bbl to a 4bbl to take the car to the drag races before the track closed for ever. When the engine gets rebuilt I’m going to switch the linkage over t a Lokar set up real clean looking
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By charliemccraney - 16 Years Ago
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Y blockhead,
The easiest way to size the picture is to use a program such as photorazor to make it smaller.
You can then store the picture in your photobucket account and it looks like you know how to do the rest.
Photorazor is easy to use. Several people on this site use it, including myself. Oh, and it's free. Just google it.
There are other methods which can make it appear smaller but doesn't actually reduce the size.
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By Rebelliousengineering® - 16 Years Ago
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i should have probably switched it a c4 but i didn't want to really work on it. hin side i will most likely do the swap though thanks for the detailed pictures because my engine is so crappy and dirty i never new there was a port for water temp on the back of the head I'm going to block off the one I'm using now off the water pump and use the one on the head to hide the wire and make the engine bay that much cleaner my goal is to have no wires be seen in the engine area just chrome and engine. I called the guy today and he said it should be done in the next day or too. I'm in no true rush, he is a one man shop with one lift so he finished the last car and now my car should be done soon i cant wait to drive her again and after the engine gets rebuilt i probably may not drive my new car as much!
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By bird55 - 16 Years Ago
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55Brodie (1/24/2008)
Y-Blockhead:
Too cool! Bicycle parts, huh?
Hah, I would have never noticed, glad you pointed that out!. Back in the 70's I worked at a bike shop for a couple of years and I saw hundreds of those kickstand plates. I know exactly what they are. I bet some version of them are still in production and available. check you local bike shop good to know.
I'd probably use 'em but I have a blue thunder that comes with.
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By bird55 - 16 Years Ago
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Nice lookin' wagon. Where did you get the black braided hose coverings? I've only seen the color stuff and don't much care for it. The black looks cleanand good for that wire bundeling task as well.
Would you sell me that wagon?
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By MoonShadow - 16 Years Ago
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I like the black hose covers too! Looks great. Does anyone know of a vacumm heater control valve that can be mounted inline like the one in the picture? I have to get mine off the intake to make room for the McCulloch bracing. Thanks, Chuck in NH
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