Recent content by russ jerome

I stand corrected, our WI climate must have something to do with all the ones I found in the local yards as all where hard,yellow and brittle. Not a component I would want to reinstall during a rebuild. I discarded the plastic check valve and installed spring loaded adjustable VAC/PRES steel...

No sense in putting pics up, your vendors will sell you reman compressors but not parts, this means your "reman" compressors you guys are paying for are full of old obsolete parts I guess?

I can get some up, have to be thurs in daylight, looks like a tiny golf "T", short story: The comp piston and cylinder are like a motorcycle, they are captured by 4 bolts, with the head lifted off there is a single valve just like your motor, piston goes down and sucks air in, on the...

Im not seeing anybody who sells parts, just complete units. Looking for the plastic check valve in the head, tore three apart in the junkyard and they "all" failed for the 7 cent valve sitting on piston, all motors and pistons work fine less the dropped plastic valve? Gladly pay $20 a...

The Murray brand T-stat - Thermostat part number 4089 DOES NOT WORK for our cars. Sold in many auto stores. The Stant thermostat - T-stat works fantastic, 188* Stant similar part number 14089 Works great!

Bone stock 1997 with original trans, worth doing any of the other mods or just drill the low HP holes to spec? I expect I will go thru the trans down the road but just added a cooler and will have pan off this weekend, have seperator gaskets in hand. (searching not real usefull, I...

Plenty of them out there, better looking than our octastars. 5x108mm bolt pattern wheels: Ford Tauras 86-Up Tempo 83-94 Thunderbird 89-Up Freestar 04-Up Windstar 95-03 Jaguar S Type 00-Up XJ 04-Up XK 07+ X Type 02-Up Lincoln...

I have new seperator gaskets on order, plan on doing the J-mod next week. Problem with the J-mod is there is very little documented part numbers or directions per year ie: pre 1998, 1997 ect. To do correctly accumulator springs and other items should be upgraded. Like most simple...

Thats exactly what I had hoped to read, real time numbers thanks. I'm gonna run this 97 bone stock less some mild polishing I did on the intake side before modding. Having drag raced for some time a base line run is priceless for things like the topic of this post. I've run turbos for...

So what are the expected stock (real world) times on seasoned Mark's, pre 97 and post 97 ?

My underhood shot is like this for a reason: http://sites.google.com/site/russjerome/Home/fourpointsix.JPG?attredirects=0 A well placed whack on the booster and loosen motor mounts makes the job a snap :) The booster diaphram is well back away from the front face.

Unfortunatly RT's have no effect on the Compucheck numbers on the timeslip, just there for heads up racers to strike a win light when both cars run the same number, zero effect on MPH/ET. Im not up on Mark VIII's stock times but I do a lot of drag racing, anything over 2.3 sixty* foot is...

Car is back together, these are pretty nice NA motors! While you guys are throwing around top end prices, guess what a single cam key costs at Lincoln? $68.....sixtyeight dollars EACH (I lost one!) 6mm keystock from True Value works just fine thank you! They are crazy looking keys, not...

Part numbers! This will help new people the more text we have with the word thermostat. Hey kid, per our conversation I data logged a series of 80-120mph pulls today, AC on and mid 60's here with the Stant stat in: peak temp 117* early on and cycled up and down, max temp was 124* on long...

For new people doing headgaskets on the 4.6 DOHC: The newer pkg's are labeled to read correctly, DOES NOT include the rubber gaskets listed below. Some auto stores description and early Felpro boxx's lead you to believe it a "complete kit", its not. FEL-PRO - Head Set # HS9790PT3...