Pighead

What he said plus, use a marker and mark the line where it comes out from the nut WITHOUT THE OLIVE. Then put it all together the way @73FJ40 described, but with your mark 1/16” from the nut. This will keep the line from bottoming out inside the...

I'm seeing $30.50 @ Cruiser Outfitters. Perhaps you're looking at the wiper arm?

This is truly a horrible job. I am starting to reflect on my choice of sand blasting this myself. With that said, I recalled an episode @BenjaminCA where he used a drill and a long round stock to make a channel sweep. I got some nylon round...

I was able to get it started, warmed up to operating temperature and it idles fine but there's still a miss or hesitation.

The site glass between cranks appears to be about half full.

One thing I do not joke about is oil pressure.

I honestly thought you were joking about leaning on the distributor and bumping it… until I also read that it was the recommended way in the FSM. And sure enough it worked like a charm! The distributor is back in the correct place rotated away...

Fair enough. What is the fuel level in the sight glass between crankings?

…I thought about all the things I could do to it…and took this pic. Top off for summer next week.

Update on the project. Coming together.

One bank? Do you mean, perhaps, one barrel of the carb? That'd be normal.

I made these. It was a fun little sheetmetal project. Cheap marine speakers off Amazon. Sounds good enough for me

The dipstick is right there, when you pull it out to check oil level let it drip into the dizzy oil cup

I'm not going to worry about it. I usually use a Rotella or that Valvoline racing hi zinc oil and throw in a bottle of Lucas zddp. This is a new oil that works differently, or so I hear and I've been wanting to try it. I'm just going to run it as...

New oilpan and drainplug gaskets and I'm back in business. So far, no leaks. Yes, there is oil in it.

Yahtzee! I soaked the base of the distributor with trans fluid & acetone, then went to Vermont for three weeks. After a little tappy-tap-tap from underneath the distributor popped out! TDC on compression stroke & FSM procedure to reinstall in the...

No. I just lean on the dizzy cap while I crank the engine with the starter motor. You'll feel the dizzy drop down that last quarter inch

I sure did get shorted, several inches lol. There is going to be a ton of work involved and learning to get this piggy up to par, but I have nothing but time. It’s completely opposite from what I was hunting for, but sometimes you have to just...

So, in Mid-March, dolly towed the gleaming truck back home, instructed them to repaint some hinges and hood hooks that needed more paint, and brought home the doors, bib, hood, tire carrier, bolts, hinges, and all the other futzley pieces. The...

I think you got shorted on that Pig...

Got off at 0700 then pulled a 15 hour round trip with the family to pick this monstrosity up:

Got the oilpan gasket off in one piece, probably because some idiot decided to see what would happen without any gasket maker. So here's what a used, leaky, oilpan gasket looks like. Think I got my money's worth out of this one, think I might...

Pics of my front bumper? Oh I got pics. It's just some 5" C channel with a couple notch and bends, one of the first mods I ever did for the Pig.

While the oil was draining, I rebuilt my oldest fuel pump, on the tailgate. Gotta practice them trailside repairs.

Research indicates that my Pig may be leaking oil. I suspicion that it might be the old cork pan gasket which has been fine for 21 years but is sorta bulging out the sides from being snugged up occasionally over the years. So I dropped the pan...