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Offline rockhouse66

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Re: The Shakes
« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2013, 08:22:32 pm »
If you drop the bolt in crossmember and unbolt the idler arm bracket from the frame rail, you should be able to pull the steering linkage down and have ample room to remove the oil pan.
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Re: The Shakes
« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2013, 08:50:03 pm »
Quote from: DAdams on April 17, 2013, 08:15:17 pm
Your probably right with the neater job dropping the pan. Guess it can be done by dropping the idler, cylinder, & maybe pitman arm?

You can get the pan off by removing the large lower support bracket that runs from side to side and then unbolting the idler arm from the apron. That will allow you to lower the steering linkage out of the way.
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Re: The Shakes
« Reply #17 on: April 17, 2013, 09:00:43 pm »
I just unbolted the grill center bracket and moved it to the side to change the cam in my 69 left the grill bolted in .
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Re: The Shakes
« Reply #18 on: April 18, 2013, 12:31:11 pm »
Quote from: DAdams on April 17, 2013, 08:15:17 pm
...Hate to go through all the trouble but when it's no fun to drive I either fix it or park it...

That statement really makes me suspect that you have something other than cam selection going on.  I've been around some street cars that were way over-cammed, probably to the point of hurting performance more than helping, but none of them was so unpleasant at idle that someone would contemplate changing the cam for just that reason.  I don't have a strong opinion as to what's going on, but something in that 8V setup would be my first suspicion.  I'd sure hate to change cams before exhausting all other possibilities.
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Re: The Shakes
« Reply #19 on: April 18, 2013, 01:41:48 pm »
Quote from: geraldt52 on April 18, 2013, 12:31:11 pm
Quote from: DAdams on April 17, 2013, 08:15:17 pm
...Hate to go through all the trouble but when it's no fun to drive I either fix it or park it...
That statement really makes me suspect that you have something other than cam selection going on.  I've been around some street cars that were way over-cammed, probably to the point of hurting performance more than helping, but none of them was so unpleasant at idle that someone would contemplate changing the cam for just that reason.  I don't have a strong opinion as to what's going on, but something in that 8V setup would be my first suspicion.  I'd sure hate to change cams before exhausting all other possibilities.
     Good point, any chance that you can get an emission place to sniff the exhaust? Quick easy check to see if the carbs are at fault.
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Re: The Shakes
« Reply #20 on: April 18, 2013, 05:31:11 pm »
I agree. Would not hurt to investigate further potential problems before tearing into it. I've finally found a local guy that is supposed to be very FE savvy. He's going to do some troubleshooting weekend after next. We'll see what he thinks...

Thanks for all the input.
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