Recent content by Belair348

Hello, I needed to replace the water pump on my '58 348, so I went down to my local parts store and ordered one. It came in and all looked good with opening, hose location, bypass, etc. What I didn't think to look at was shaft length. Gave my core to the guy and went home. Painted it up, put...

Mac, OK, the noise is not from the rearend. I had a buddy ride in the back and it's from the CB tunnel. Looked up into the tunnel and I can see where the U-Joints are actually contacting the tunnel. In looking at it, it almost appears that the rear end, CB, and tranny are not in alignment. As I...

OK, flipping the PB assembly over seems to have made that sound go away, now I'm hearing something in the rear end. This is a new 348 (3x2) pulling about 325 hp, not alot but it's a hell of a lot more than the 283 had. I'm getting the clunking sound only under hard acceleration from a stop...

Mac, Thanks for the work to get those pics. I see you have your bowtie cross member installed in the bottom holes, they say it's supposed to be in the top holes. SO apparently it will work on someone's car. I saw how close the PB assembly was to the U-Joint but I was thinking that there...

Very cool!

Hey, I finally got up the gumption to have a 700R4 put in my 58 this Spring. Well after weeks of waiting I finally got it back only to find that the drive angles are wrong. Whenever I take off I get a big clunk. Well, due to work, vacations, the Hades like heat, and all the other crap that can...

I'm thinking messy is an understatement...........:D

Here's a follow up. I installed the originals and now I have ungodly chatter coming from the engine. I've followed the manual procedure twice and I'm still getting the chatter. So two questions A. Do you have to warm the engine up before adjusting the valves (As the manual says). And B. should...

Lonnie, I had already used one when the first rocker broke.

Lonnie, That sounds like exactly the time I bought those rockers. This has been a long drawn out process, now made longer.......... Thanks.

Dan, Thanks for the heads up. I'll check into it.

Thanks for the info. OK, I just went out and found the originals. They look OK, some wear, but at over 50 years old, who doesn't have some wear?:) What's your thoughts on not having the same ball and rocker combo? 10 of the originals still had the same ball and nut together, the other 5 had...

Hello, I've got about 100 miles on my 348 rebuild and this morning I broke two rocker arms. I broke one about 70 miles in, and thought that I'd gotten a bad casting. So that's three in 100 miles, must be something else. I spoke to the shop that set up the heads and they believe that it's...

Thanks Don, I'll look them up tonight.

If I could get a little more advice..... I've got my local tranny guy telling me, "we'll get you a converter for the 700R4", but couldn't really give me any specs. So I called B&M and TCI, B&M were more thorough, but TCI seemed to be more comfortable with their suggestion. So here's what I've...