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    10W-40 for Chevy 350

    Valve seals. I just did mine in my 85 305. Made a world of difference in both smoke at startup and smoke at idle (my guess is vacuum was pulling oil in past the intake seal). With a spring compressor and an air compressor with a spark plug adapter to pressurize the cylinders, it took me...
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    1980 C10 backfires through carb under load

    1.check firing order. Ask me how I know. 2. Careful with the advice here. 305 is a different animal. Timing is more like 4-5 BTDC base.
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    Who sells the best fitting dash pad. Time for a new one

    Usa-1 is great but it’s unobtanium. I bought one for my 85 a couple years ago and love it. Have been waiting for an 80 version for 10 months now. Can’t recommend them.
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    Loud squeal over 2k rpm need advice

    I usually don't start squealing until well over 4K RPM.
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    1980 SBC 350 w/Quadrajet Carb

    If you pour a little gas down the throat of the carb, you can help rule out the carb as an issue. The engine should at least fire with gas poured into the carb. If you are getting some backfire through the carb, I would bet it's a timing issue. But, with an engine that has been sitting that...
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    Flash rust after ospho rinse question.

    You can definitely over think this. "Flash rust" is in the eye of the beholder. For me, a very little bit of copper coloring that comes up between rinsing the panel and blowing it dry with clean, dry shop air is not going to cause a bit of an issue with an SPI epoxy coating. I would...
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    New to Square body, what's this?

    Russian glovebox?
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    New to Square body, what's this?

    Remote ignition switch?
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    Loose motor mounts? Please help

    On your rumbling on, just do a search for “dieseling” and you should find a lot of causes and cures. Usually it’s excessive air leaking into the engine via throttle plates or another vacuum leak.
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    Transmission paint

    I don't know exactly. The Eastwood stuff is expensive. You can get cast blast fairly cheap and it would look fine.
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    Transmission paint

    Did a th350 this summer with Eastwood aluma blast. Wire cup on a drill to clean it all up first.
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    Chugs while turing off

    Add Vacuum leak to the list.
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    USA1 Industries

    Must be operating on the LIFO principle. I ordered a dash pad in January. No word.
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    Ac not blowing cold

    Your problem can range from a dirty connector to not having core components under the hood or dash. Not much the group can do until you post up some underhood pictures and/or more info, like: 1. Are all the components there? Compressor? Condenser? Accumulator? Pressure switch? Compressor...
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    Another "Chevy Lean" conundrum

    My first reaction is “man, it’s a truck…a half inch isn’t out of spec.” Second reaction is simply your rear leafs are fatigued. Did you swap the rear springs too? My 85 has lowering hangers on it and one side is in the higher bolt hole for just this reason.
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    Door Hinge Pins Not Seating?

    I used a shop press.
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    Once In A Lifetime Opportunity - 1 of a kind Vintage Classic

    Slight damage from bronto ribs at drive in.
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    Inoperative Gauges

    If you mean suddenly they are inoperative, then no. I don’t remember if there is a common fuse or anything. But, when I got my ‘85 it’s oil pressure, temp, and voltage gauges did not work and I took the cluster apart, cleaned them up, and tested them. Two were fine and the problem was...
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    Just for fun: Read my plugs

    Almost dropped my beverage at quad Rajeev. It beats an edelweiss any day.
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    Just for fun: Read my plugs

    Just finished valve seals and hadn’t had the plugs out for more than a year. I will post the pics. Tell me how my truck is doing. This is an 85 305 (named rusty) that I drive in the weekends after finishing a light restoration about a year ago. The engine is stock with a quad Rajeev ( I’m...
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    Burning Oil At Start Ups

    I did get this job done today. Did all the seals exhaust and intake. This has to be the highest labor to parts ratio in existence. I started just before 8 this morning and finished a 20 min test drive around 2pm. My existing seals were umbrella style. I don’t know if these are oem or not. This...
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    Burning Oil At Start Ups

    Planning to do valve seals over the long weekend if I can get to it. My 305 sometimes has zero smoke and sometimes has lots of smoke at warm startup. I haven’t figured out what the correlation is. All I can figure is that there must be some seals that are worse than others and that oil...
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    Ball Joints and Lowering Springs Today

    So if you have read my “Nemo” thread you know that I had to move out of my shop in July. That leaves me in a state of flux without shop air or the tools that go with it. So, because I was bored, I decided to tackle my truck Rusty’s ball joints today, with only an electric grinder and hand...
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    best rear gears for 700r4

    I just went back to stock tire size on my truck rusty (only about 2.5% reduction in tire diameter from 265/70-15 to 235/75) which has a 305, 700r4 and 2.73 gears. Experience driving in OD is already way better even with that slight change in tire “gearing.” I wouldn’t mind having shorter gears...
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    What are your favorite/ best looking valve covers for SBC?

    I don’t know for sure but I’ve been told that the cool kids just run without them.

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