Hello all,

Well, a holiday weekend and a slant six engine to tune....oh boy! I got to looking and even more dangerous, thinking, and am wondering about the okay-ness or not of the following:

TO replace the ground strap from bell to firewall, how about a battery cable with bolt holes on each end? Get a seriously heavy ground is the idea.

TO replace a dipstick tube, how about tapping the hole and puttting in a home furnace type fuel line fitting and making a dipstick tube out of copper tubing to same dimension as the steel line to put in the fitting? ( I see the spare I have has been bent just a little where it went into the block so now it would have to be pounded to straighten it, probably making a flat spot in the process, and I also see a small crack in the tube where it has the block flange, so I would have to braze it anyway to use it at all).

Thanks and enjoy the holiday..
rock
'64d100

Idea #1 sounds good.....

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Yeah....Im the one who destroyed this rare, vintage automobile.....

Certainly not a bad idea.
As long as you're careful to make the new tube to the correct dimension, I don't see a problem here, either.

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