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I removed all the BS from the air cleaner, bead
blasted and gave it a fresh coat of paint. Frank gave me a Duraspark distributor
and module. New spark plugs, cap and wires were bought. I painted engine
Corporate Blue and the brackets, pulleys and fan were painted black. The fuel
line, throttle linkage and vacuum port was painted cast aluminum. To half
way clean the inside the engine I
adding a quart of ATF and let it run for about 30 minutes. I didn't want to
break all the sludge loose at one time and clog the oil pump screen. The next
day I removed the oil pan to bead blast and paint. I notice the date on the oil pan
10/3/73...The car was built on 11/1/73. The 6 cyl fan shroud I got from the
junkyard cleaned up good with a worn out green scrub pad and new decals were purchase for the shroud and air
cleaner. Timing set was replaced with a
pre-emission set. The reason being there's one tooth difference in the keyway
that is about 7 degrees more advance
valve timing and will give more performance and gas mileage. With the Duraspark
distributor the ignition timing will be 5 extra initial degrees with a colder
sparkplugs. The light spring on the advance
weights was replaced with a Mr. Gasket #925D spring along with bending the tab
that the heavy spring is attached inward 3/32". This allows mechanical timing to come in at a much lower rpm.
This also adds extra performance and gas mileage.
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