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1970 Challenger 3-speaker black non a/c dash pad and a plastic DashTop cover for sale. Selling both at once to clear out some room in the basement. The dash pad is in usable condition, but nowhere near perfect. It has two cracks in the top of it. One crack goes all the way across from the...

I'm grounding the DMM to a screw on the dash frame with some alligator clips. I figured that would make sense if the voltage limiter works off the dash ground as well, but always open to other suggestions.

Hey everyone. I'm stumped with something that recently started happening to me. To start off, I have rallye guages and put in a new dash wiring harness, ignition switch, and voltage regulator last year. Everything was great for a while, but now I'll lose my fuel, temp, and oil guages all at the...

I don't know if it'll help, but I dealt with this recently and found it was the speedometer itself. The cable that was in the car wasn't correct, so I got a new one of those and lubed it - still bounced. Then I checked the speedo gear in the tranny and it was fine (although messy to check - I...

Yeah, I agree. I went back and forth for a while between the Flaming River and getting the cheaper Grant wheel, but I wanted the smallest tuff wheel possible. Flaming River is actually right down the street from me too, so I felt like I was at least doing my part in supporting local...

I had the same thoughts when I was looking for a new steering wheel. I had a 15" wheel from a '72-74 but never really liked that look and I felt like it was a school bus steering wheel. I went with this 14" Flaming River Tuff Wheel: Satin Finish Mopar Tuff Wheel New Leather Design - Black...

Just wanted to finish this story... It's over a year later and I took the whole dash out to replace the old and sketchy dash wiring harness, cracked dash pad and put a new OER speedo in... wouldn't you know it, the speedometer doesn't bounce anymore. Kind of an anti-climatic ending I guess...

Thanks Chryco. I was able to get the rod off the clutch pedal after stuffing some scrap 2x4 pieces between the z bar and firewall. That took the tension off of the rod in the car enough to get it off the pin on the pedal. After some fighting and swearing, I got the new boot on there. Thanks...

Hey everyone. I have the dash out of my 71 challenger at the moment and figured I'd replace my clutch rod boot while I'm in there. I can't figure out how in the world to get the clutch rod disconnected from the pedal after removing the clip on the pedal's pin. This is for a small block, so it's...

I wound up buying a NOS Napa Echlin vacuum advance canister and threw it on there. I'm a sucker for made in 'merica parts. So far so good. I've been out a few times like normal and haven't had an issue yet. All of my canisters have been adjustable, too. I did mess with them and set it to...

Hey everyone. I've got a Proform 66990 distributor in my 408 stroker motor that I bought new back in November from Summit Racing. Back in April, I noticed the vacuum advance canister wasn't holding vacuum anymore. I called up Summit and they worked with Proform to send me a new canister...

Ok, that makes sense. I picked this car up late last summer and dont know much of the history or service records. I know this engine was put in back in 2012 and has about 10k miles on it, but that's the extent of the history that I know of it. I spent the winter going through a lot of the...

Thanks guys. I've been starting to look at the usual suspects to see what could be up with this. The one thing I wasn't familiar with was if my cam would be considered aggressive, mild, etc - and I didn't know how far I should go with trying to solve this if the vacuum fluctuation is just a...

Hey everyone, I've got a blueprint engines 408 stroker in my '71. My vacuum gauge hooked up to manifold vacuum bounces erratically between 10-15" Hg at idle. It's got a Mopar Performance Purple cam in it (from blueprint's website): Cam Type: Flat Tappet .474 Intake .474 Exhaust 238 Intake /...

Hi everyone, I'm having trouble finding the right temperature sending unit to buy. I've verified that my temp gauge is working exactly the way I'd expect - grounded to the gauge makes the needle go all the way hot. Then I hooked up a resistor that was around 40 ohms to a ground and the needle...