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That sounds like a good idea but I'm too old school to know where to begin doing that, and my preference is always to keep things as simple as possible. I do like listening to classic rock radio stations while I drive, however. It's nice to have a tape or CD player for long road trips, but it's...

Are the aftermarket stereos that are available worth getting for Road Runners? For my '73 there's only three available: two from Custom Autosound and one from Retro Sound. These are just AM/FM stereo radios, but the more expensive CA stereo has a CD controller built into it I believe to control...

According to the people at the store the PS pumps are tested with ATF so that's why the one I got had some in it. I have no way of knowing the truth of that statement unfortunately. My 1973 Chrysler service manual says in the maintenance section to fill the PS pump with the power steering fluid...

Thanks. I got it at Auto Joes (otherwise known as autozone) so I don't know how much help they'll be since the people working there have never impressed me as knowing much about cars.

I just got a new power steering pump for my RR and it looks like there was automatic transmission fluid in it for some reason because red oily fluid drained out of it when I installed it. Is this what these things are assembled with nowadays or could this be a return that someone used auto...

I had a big ordeal with getting my brakes to work with new master cylinders I got for it. What ended up doing to bleed the MC, instead of using the plastic plugs supplied with new MC nowadays I bench bled it the Chrysler way of running lines from the outlet ports of the MC back into the MC: you...

I'm having trouble getting the idle to stabilize in my '73 with a stock 400 engine that now is option free. I shortened the throttle return spring located in front of the Thermoquad carb. to give it plenty of tension but I'm still having trouble with the engine idle racing uncontrollably at...

I use 10W-40 (whatever is reasonably priced) with STP oil treatment added to get the needed ZDDP. We have cold winters and hot summers where I live so the 10W-40 works well.

I wasn't being snarky - just stating what I decided to do. I don't know why people are so terribly sensitive nowadays. Yes, this probably isn't the best forum for getting info on what I'm working on.

I'll answer my own post since no one else will. I decided to go with the above style brackets/clips. Without the brake booster on the firewall the wiring seems to go in an awkward way if I try to use the single tree-like bracket that is used with the brake booster. The wiring takes a more...

That's what I was thinking, too. My experience with new leaf springs is they always make the vehicle sit too high. They say they'll settle and bring the car down to the right height, but I put new leaf springs on my Firebird over 15 years ago and am still waiting for them to settle. I need to...

I got mine rebuilt at the local auto electric shop, too. I also had the alternator done, too, by him. The guy we have doing this here in town is really good at it and my preference is to have him rebuild what I have rather than take my chances on something "rebuilt" from a parts store. I got...

Thanks, but as I mentioned above I found the two groove pulley I was looking for.

Like I mentioned the sad part is all the salvage yards around here have either crushed all their old cars or closed down altogether (the really good yard we had here in town did both). The yard I found the pulley at that is located a few miles out of town used to have a multitude of old cars...

That's a weird pulley set-up alright. It almost looks like something that someone concocted to be able to get rid of the A/C compressor without having to change out all the pulleys to the non-A/C ones. I wonder what went into putting that together. Well, I think I got lucky today. I drove out...

This is what I believe the pulley looks like: .

Unfortunately on Mopar engines A/C and non-A/C crank and water pump pulleys can't be interchanged for a number of reasons, including diameter differences and because they are so close together. For example, a non-A/C water pump pulley is so large in diameter it would hit the extra two pulleys...

They want $92 for the pulley I need. Typical greedy Mopar parts seller. I'm not going to pay $92 for a double groove pulley because I'm not a rich tycoon (or a fool). This was a very common pulley near as I can tell. probably being used on millions of vehicles over the years, especially in the...

According to my research these were used on both big block and small block engines as well as some V-6's - both without A/C - up until 1991. The outer groove on this model pulley is about 7 1/2" and the inner groove is about 6 1/2" give or take 1/8". I need one of these for my 400 engine. Thanks.

As part of converting my Road Runner to manual brakes I got a new firewall stiffening plate and it has two holes at the top of it for two wiring harness brackets like this: . These are listed as being '71-72 brackets and my car is a '73. Can someone please confirm that these were only used up to...