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Author:  rock [ Sun May 28, 2006 6:19 am ]
Post subject:  your opinion on 2 repairs I am thinking to make
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
Author:  sandy in BC [ Sun May 28, 2006 7:26 am ]
Post subject: 
Idea #1 sounds good.....
Author:  SlantSixDan [ Sun May 28, 2006 8:09 am ]
Post subject:  Re: your opinion on 2 repairs I am thinking to make
Quote:
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.
Certainly not a bad idea.
Quote:
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?
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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