Irish pride edition? St Patrick's day special?
Chain saw bar oil makes a pretty good way oil. Cutting oils are easy to find locally, the brown Oatey stuff in the plumbing aisle at local home...
Here's a few rabbit holes: SOUTH BEND LATHE WORKS South Bend Lathe Works - Publication Reprints | VintageMachinery.org The SBL Workshop
Assuming it is similar with CJ's and Wagons/Trucks. The concave "STARTER" bezel was typical of 12 volt 57-60, and was a 4-position switch. Mid...
An L-67 supercharged 3800 would seem the ideal swap. Only obstacles being the throttle body location and it uses the "metric" bell housing.
Might look into air cooled VW blades. Impress your friends and say they're for a Triumph TR-3.
The later 231 pickups were larger, like 5/8". If it will fit it is a great upgrade, especially if you've taken the time to enlarge the passages...
Best is to buy/rent one of these http://www.amazon.com/OTC-7394-Universal-Hub-Puller/dp/B0002SRH60
So the trucks all had 11" brakes to begin with (manual adjustment). Later self adjusting backing plates could be a worthwhile upgrade I suppose....
Re: TBI thoughts! I've got less than $200 in my whole setup so far, that includes a TB, ECM, 2 harnesses, 2 HEI distributors (so I can build a...
Re: TBI thoughts! Not knocking the MS but why not just use a modded GM 1227747 ECM? I'm doing a similar swap into my Buick 350 J-truck using all...
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