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    Cooling Questions and Concerns

    Your temps look fine to me. Overly hot heater hoses would be much more than 143 degrees. I don't think you have anything to worry about. J. B.
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    Idle Mixture Screws Do Not Adjust Anything on 1974 454.

    Was that carb new or used? If used, it probably needs new gaskets. Also, you went from a 305 to a 454. What rear end do you have and what transmission do you have, (if automatic)? You can't use a Turbo 350 in back of a 454, nor can you use a 10 bolt rear end. Both will soon fail. You need...
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    Truck Size

    Part of the reason for the poor throttle response is the shift to foreign-style power bands - peak torque at 4,000 + RPM vs the 1,500 - 2,400 RPM our engines used to develop peak torque at. Yes, today's have astounding horsepower for a street engine, but in order to get that astounding...
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    Truck Size

    Wow! When the 1973 trucks, Chevy/GMC, Ford, Dodge, were brand new, some were complaining about how huge they were, but that Square Body looks tiny next to that Tundra! J.B.
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    Truck Size

    I don't want any part of them, as they are not machines, they are rolling computers, and I don't want to drive a computer.
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    Valve seals for camel hump heads?

    And sunken seats are often a sign of pre-unleaded heads being run on unleaded gas for an extended period of time - the valve and seat pound each other way, little by little. J. B.
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    harmonic balancer bolt?

    My 292 has center bolt, but most of the 250s I've seen do not. J. B.
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    Steering box frame reinforcement weld in plates

    Maybe because mine do not have power steering? J. B.
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    Steering box frame reinforcement weld in plates

    Mine, a 73, has never cracked, and neither did my 81.
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    Ruh roh Raggy! I hear you knocking…

    That's good, maybe something was in there and fell out unnoticed.
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    Straight 8 Buick With Belt Driven FI

    Dual deuces. In 1941 - 42, most Buicks used a dual 2 barrel setup, called Compound Carburetion. They were progressively linked, so they functioned like a single 4 barrel. Some folks retrofitted earlier and later models with this setup often with dual exhausts, and some replaced the secondary...
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    Ruh roh Raggy! I hear you knocking…

    n A bad cam would, at worse, result in affected cylinders seemingly misfiring, especially at speeds above idle speed, and maybe noisy lifters, but not knocks. J. B.
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    Ruh roh Raggy! I hear you knocking…

    Hmm, possible that they put in a defective throwout bearing, or maybe lost one of the pressure plate to flywheel bolts, and replaced it with one that is too long and is striking something. Many years ago, I had my brother take my car to an acquaintance of his to replace a blown headgasket, (I...
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    Taller tires for my 1976 K20

    You might be right.
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    Taller tires for my 1976 K20

    Problem is, radials exert more outward pressure at the bead, but to each his own. J.B.
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