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  1. Irishman999

    Irish's pickup from hell, the 454SS.

    I sit around day dreaming about this truck! I still love it as much as the day I saw it on Craigslist. This megasquirt stuff is going to be interesting, I highly suggest you do what im doing with it. If I can get the spacers made for the intake manifold I was hoping to order some of the...
  2. Irishman999

    Irish's pickup from hell, the 454SS.

    Were having a FMLA party after my daughter is born, im gonna go ahead and get my balls rendered useless so we can just both stay at home recovering for a little bit. I never planned on kids but this is going to be my third, I think im good now.
  3. Irishman999

    Irish's pickup from hell, the 454SS.

    This project is back from the dead, I keep getting distracted but I finally realized I wont be happy in life until im driving it to work. It was actually a combination of events, I was at some dumbass place in tuscon last summer eating breakfast with my wife and her family in an out door patio...
  4. Irishman999

    TH350 5,800 Rpm trans brake smoked trans

    Plastic bushings can be put in place of brass ones, if the shaft is a little scuffed up you can just install a poly bushing instead. You can still get a good long service life out of a transmission with poly bushings installed. Sounds to me like you need a TH-400, To make a 350 hold up to the...
  5. Irishman999

    My TH350 Rebuild

    It looks like the outer race on your one way sprag clutch failed. Swapping a unit from a 4l60 is a direct upgrade for what you have. Might call around town and see if there is any transmission parts supply houses in the area that could hook you up. Another option is a bolt in unit that bolts...
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    My TH350 Rebuild

    I would just take him the case and oil pan, maybe even the servo cover. Internal transmission parts dont really get covered in grime but you do need to clean them. I mostly just rinse everything off with solvent in my parts washer and blow it dry. The main problem with shipping all the parts...
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    My TH350 Rebuild

    It looks like your overly prepared and going to lose your organization steam before you need it, as far as the bench goes. The beer fridge is good, just remember a beer fridge that close to a transmission building area can go very wrong, very quickly. If it was my work area I would ditch the...
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    My TH350 Rebuild

    I would cover that whole bench in pig mat, its going to get messy. I like pig mat because it absorbs the horrible mess from a tear down and you can just roll all the shit up and throw it away. Then I lay down a new layer of pig mat because I know I have a dirt free work surface. The hole in...
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    My TH350 Rebuild

    We should make a thread of nothing but home made tools and just compare notes on everything. I think some of the stuff people create works better than the stuff you buy. Perfect example is my blue point apply piston installers for a turbo 400, they work awesome but I saw a video of a guy...
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    My TH350 Rebuild

    First thing you should do is find a barnes and nobles book store and find Cliff Ruggles book on rebuilding turbo 350's. You should be replacing all the bushings, I use a small ball peen hammer with a modified punch to get them out. Getting them in is tricky since you need bushing drivers for any...
  11. Irishman999

    running sluggish with new headers

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_sensor "Automotive oxygen sensors, colloquially known as O2 sensors, make modern electronic fuel injection and emission control possible. They help determine, in real time, if the air–fuel ratio of a combustion engine is rich or lean. " But still... the...
  12. Irishman999

    I'm strongly considering going with 3.08's

    Its been a few years since I watched mine get rebuilt but if I remember right low gear had no syncro ring at all. The other 3 forward gears had them, just not low. If you want to keep it simple get on craigslist and find a TH400 and run that. I rebuilt the one in my 454SS for cheap. They will...
  13. Irishman999

    What was your first Vehicle?

    I think Mopars dark years were the early 2000's. I had a 96 Dakota single cab 2wd with a 2.5 4 cylinder and I loved that truck. But again it just started randomly becoming a dodge truck one day at a time. I actually rebuilt that truck from the ground up from a donor truck. When I got it the...
  14. Irishman999

    I'm strongly considering going with 3.08's

    First gear in a SM465 is not synchronized so you cant really drive it like a 4 speed. I rarely ever used low in my 85 but to get into low I would have to be stopped and hold the clutch long enough to let everything in the transmission slow down so it would go into gear. I dont recall ever trying...
  15. Irishman999

    What was your first Vehicle?

    It actually left me stranded within 30 minutes of ownership. I left the dealer and was stopping for Pizza and when I got out all the coolant was on the ground. They towed it back to the dealer, no one in town had an upper radiator hose for it since it had the 5.9 so I actually had to talk them...
  16. Irishman999

    What was your first Vehicle?

    I had a 2000 Dakota quad cab with a 5.9, I thought it would haul ass but the thing was a turd. It was the worse vehicle I ever owned. My first car was a 86 Mazda 626 I somehow got from my friends older brother. He ruined the transmission so it had first gear only, not even reverse. I was 14...
  17. Irishman999

    Long time Chevy fan

    Welcome! I lived in Reno a few years ago, right off of wells Ave. I drove my 85 when I lived there, you might have saw it on the road once. It was blue and rust colored for a while and then it was covered in dark grey primer. There is a guy in Sun Valley with an absolute shitload of...
  18. Irishman999

    restore or buy

    Be carefull with LMC, they have burned me a few times. They just sent my Dad a fender for his 76 and it was severely damaged when it showed up. Both the fenders are kinda screwy as far as lining them up. I put their wing window rubbers in my 85 and they immediately started dry rotting and...
  19. Irishman999

    New from AZ

    Welcome from Morenci az!
  20. Irishman999

    New from AZ

    Welcome from Morenci!
  21. Irishman999

    Harbor Freight Tool/Product Review

    The electric fly swatter will not disappoint.
  22. Irishman999

    Fuel issue while driving

    You can solve it the wrong way like I always do and just start replacing everything it could be until you stumble on one single problem that fixes it for almost no money or just rule out problems. Hotrod makes good points with the electric fuel pump but I would eliminate it right from the get...
  23. Irishman999

    white lettering: in or out

    If they said "uniroyal" or "firestone" I would say white letters in. Those are BFG's so it would be a sin to hide what they are, without the white letters they just look like any other tire.
  24. Irishman999

    Fuel issue while driving

    I had just about every fueling issue you could imagine with my 85, everything seemed like vapor lock to me. There is countless pages on here from years ago about my truck running like shit after driving around for a while, it even had trouble restarting after shut off hot. I tried 2 new fuel...
  25. Irishman999

    mid 9's impala rear end

    Impala's dont have spring perches, they have have links with coil springs. You will be cutting alot of shit off. I have some real world experience to offer on Impala SS rear ends. I can roll through a corner and break both tires loose. It will do donuts no problem, one night we tore up a wet...

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