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Investigating the "always empty" fuel problem I found that the float has come off the arm and it's still in the tank . Besides pinching a cork from a bottle of plonk, what can be used as a float? I was thinking of using a piece of 1" dowel (Mum's mop handle will become a little shorter). I will ...

No worries, I reckon straight on then.

I have managed to get my hands on a bonnet bird, and found the section with all the drilling measurements. Does the bird have a rubber gasket under it, or get mounted straight onto the paint?

I am about to change the sump gasket (with the engine in the car), It looks like the 2 short bits are for the front and rear. Just trying to work out how to keep them bent while installing them. Or better to silicone them onto the sump with a curved "former" maybe while the silicon dries?

gpi wrote: Tue Apr 05, 2022 10:16 pm what was wrong with the old balancer?

Nothing wrong with the old balancer, just the timing cover seal.
I used a removal tool which I made, and didn't need that clearance on the front panel.

I was about to install the harmonic balancer with the engine in the car, when I noticed a notch carved into the bottom edge of the radiator panel , lining up with the middle of the crankshaft. This must have been forethought by GMH, as I sure can't swing a BFH in the gap where the radiator sits, but ...

Blacky wrote: Sun Nov 07, 2021 10:30 pm 1 1/8" UNF or something like that, one of our club members bought a bolt and drilled a hole through the guts of it and tapped it to make his own puller

Thanks all, that's exactly my plan. I have one tapered bolt which I use on a bunch of pullers.

What is the thread size of the internal thread of the harmonic balancer.?

I have tried searching for info but keep getting this -"phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]/vendor/s9e/text-formatter/src/Utils.php on line 76: DOMDocument::loadXML(): xmlParseEntityRef: no name in Entity, line: 41"
I don't computer very well , so I will ask here- It looks like the balancer ...

Thanks for all the replies. I've installed many rears in early Chev's , Pontiacs, etc, just so I could strap the baby seats in, but never bothered with fronts as they are not required here (S.A.) if never originally fitted.(before '66).
Thats a very neat installation EK283, and thanks for the ...

I would like to fit lap/sash seat belts to my FB, and have seen "hidden" types (where the big ugly bolt head is not visible from the outside). I have tried finding pictures on this site, but it comes back with "404 error- something about being moved". Anyone have a photo of their "hidden' mount, or ...

While adjusting the pitman arm ball socket, I noticed that both tie rods have a very slight bend. It is pretty much the same amount on both.
Is this normal?

You been snoopin' over my fence again!!!

Your'e right, I didn't follow the line through properly, and the line I was looking at was the vacuum line for the wipers. I reckon a "T" there might work, the line is 1/4".

There is a fitting which feeds the vacuum advance on the distributor, how about a "T" fitting there? I don't have any other holes in the manifold, unless I get to it with the drill.