Don Terrill’s Speed-Talk

the disc is a little larger than the outside of the neon tube, has 2 arrows, one small, one large, large arrow has solid center so it will show different than small arrow. degree ring is plastic and goes over top ,just a little smaller opening than the outer diameter of the neon tube. There are no s...

I have made repairs with the rods they sell for fixing pot metal to make about a square inch of fuel bowl bottom ,used some rusty metal to make a form for the bottom melted it in, it looked somewhat ugly but was still working 15 years later, perhaps if I had practiced some it could have been nicer l...

I had a similar wear pattern when I firs started rigid honing and the hone chattered---- the high spots wore shiny--- I was using a aamco hone and learned to put cardboard shims under the guide felts

I have found that the larger the iron the quicker it flows the solder and the less heat that is transfered to the mass of the componet ----I learned this soldering starter windings to the commutator, the 300 watt would eventually get the area to soldering temp, but insulation would smoke some, then ...

I don't know how much loss ,but some of the older electric cars I worked on used motor cooling for cabin heating

I just got to see this car again, it limped in 3 years and 75k after the incident in the picture, all it got was a few swipes with rigid hone and used piston/used rings, oil consumption stopped--- he claimed to have changed the oil--- once, -- in 75k miles, came limping in with all filters clogged a...

Does it have antilock brakes, I have seen antilock units not pass fluid

The "B" crankshaft has 2" mains, the rods 1.875 I took apart a lot of the early midget/sprite engines, it was surprising how many of the inserts were cracked in 1/2 Go look at this site https://www.antiqueenginerebuilding.com/INSERTTECH.html It lists all the machining sizes for proper...

try Antique engine rebuilding ---847-674-6716 --- he has main and rod inserts for A,B engines---made special for the application, the source othere places get them from another possibility I have is from a list of other engine bearings that have been used in the past before AER had special inserts m...

Some cars with plastic reservoir have a filter screen, if it gets torn it cam make fluid in there swirl and suck air into the fluid making the pump noisey

They were made as car engines--I have worked on them for many years, what engine can blow the cam off the head when it gets out of time and doesn't bend valves---replace the cam bearings and cam, fish in a new chain and start it----during the first gulf war I ran my 616 on used oil (it doesfill the ...

Many times when I take apart something like that the lubrication is gone from the snout the to bearing hub slides on, this will make the clutch pedal feel stiff, sometimes I can direct some lube to that area withoug getting any on the linings, some cars have no acess

Just because you think it is a poor design that appears too simple doesn't mean that it isn't a highly evolved design optimized for the application, you are still proposing to use a pump that has 5gpm less rating than the stock pumps.

From the november 36 Ford service bulletins--- capacity per minute (per pump)at 3000 rpm ---20 gallons So it seems you need a pump for each side just to equal stock. The 39 I had with the 60 ran cool at 75 mph --- built it with new original parts, boxed set of rods --all weighed within less than a g...

Mercedes used copper intake guides in aluminum heads for many years, I have scrapped over 60 lbs of copper guides ---they did wear fast, have never seen any corrosion at the guide/head interface even on heads that there was long term gasket problems that ate the head away from the valve seat. Most g...