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    No start and I am stumped

    Just my two cents after reading through this thread. If you're getting good fuel and good spark, then even if the distributor and camshaft are 180° out, you're going to get some kind of crazy backfiring, coughing through the carburetor, maybe even a fire. What you need to do is disconnect all...
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    86 K10 starter won't stop cranking

    Did you try the simplest thing and just shim the starter? It may be that when the starter gear engages the flywheel ring gear, the pressure against it is enough to overcome the force of the solenoid retracting spring, and hold it in place when power is removed from the solenoid, thus...
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    Front brake pads ceramic or semi matallic

    This is what I know about ceramic brake pads. Ceramic pads are comparatively ineffective when they're cold. In fact if you are used to driving organic or semi metallic, the first time you leave in the morning with ceramic pads, they will downright frighten you the first time you try to stop...
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    Converting from dual saddle tanks to a single fuel tank

    Don't. Those saddle tanks are up out of the way, they're protected, and they hold 32 gallons of fuel. There's no we can get that in a single fuel-cell sitting between the frame rails. Not to mention the fact that there's no place to put a 32 gallon fuel tank between the frame rails and keep it...
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    700r4 Overdrive

    There are some different ideas of what overdrive means on a 700R4. The 700R4 is essentially just a four-speed automatic transmission that is good for about 350 foot-pounds of torque. It is 100% mechanically governed; no solenoids, no vacuum, no TCU. It's the original plug-and-play transmission...
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    700r4 Overdrive

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    This blows...

    The best thing to do would be to simply underdrive it by quite a bit, using a bigger pulley on the blower and a smaller pulley on the crank, and you can run the blower all day with no boost and the engine won't even know it's there, but it will still look awesome... And you know Derek from Vice...
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    305 serious sludge

    That's exactly what happened to me on a V6 Ranger many years ago. While I was working at a commercial shop. Everybody told me not to mess with it (I was sort of new), but I was convinced that all that junk needed to be scraped out, and it was about 10 times as bad as this car. So after I did...
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    Custom Fuel Tank Location - Filler & Vent Hoses.

    The name of it there in the original message is a link the page, https://classicparts.com/chevy-gmc/chevy-gmc-truck-parts/1973-1987-truck-parts/fuel-system/1973-87-hidden-tail-light-fuel-filler-kit-sku-23-043-driver All three things are linked in the original message, the hidden taillight set...
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    Custom Fuel Tank Location - Filler & Vent Hoses.

    Greetings Guys and Gals! I just got an email from the forum saying it's been a while since I posted, which prompted me to post about my latest problem. I'm installing a square, center-mount fuel tank from Tanks, Inc. i.e. 1973-81 Chevy Blazer Fuel Injection Gas Tank [<—link]. The tank has a...
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    Nylon cam gear years

    I'm probably late to the game here, but the Chevy 396/454 is not an interference engine. The nylon sprocket can blow itself to pieces at 80 miles an hour on the freeway, and you can just replace the timing gear and chain set and be on your way.
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    I’m pretty pissed!!

    I feel your pain. But some of that pain is your own doing. I'm wondering why you didn't just return the bushings when you couldn't find suitable inner sleeves, and why and how you managed to install them if you didn't have sleeves that were the right size. Mere friend just finished a year's...
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    Adding 4WD, where does the shifter go?

    OK, we're going to give it the college try! Thanks for your help guys!
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    Adding 4WD, where does the shifter go?

    Hey, Bill, Yes, that's what I've got. A shifter from the correct truck, with the single linkage rod on the bellcrank on the 208. The hard-to-type kkgp81 sent me in the direction of an aftermarket hump, so I found one and got the pictures, so I have an idea of the placement, but I wanted to find...
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    1984 k10 700r4 won't shift out of 2nd please help!

    Well, truthfully, this transmission is probably never going to see more than 300 hp, so I should be okay with it for a while, but if I do blow this one, my next step is 4L60E. I don't need an 80. We'll see this summer after I put 9:1 pistons and another new cam in my 400, this time a Comp Cams...
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