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I'm a schoolteacher. I teach English composition... in this little town called Adley, Pennsylvania. The last eleven years, I've been at...

I was going to say “hoodage” but I guess deck lid is two syllables could have worked. It never popped into my stream of consciousness...

Frank and Beans

His hands started shaking, His Big Block was breaking, He popped up the bonnet and said, You picked a fine time to leave me Lucile...

The bearing pocket only needs to be .005-.010 less than the thickness of the bearing assembly, which appears to be 12-13 mm. The key...

And If If have a 10mm deep picket cut in the 1” long 2”OD x 1.5”ID tube, then weld on the other end of the 1” tube, will I have wished I...

TOP Steering Stem Bearing So after looking at how things go together, it seems like the red goes directly on the green. The black dust...

Here’s Jody from ARC… “All of our Billet side covers come with not only a O-ring but come with a shim/gasket kit to set the proper crank...

On a 420cc I have seen RedBeard put on the billet side cover and the electric starter motor. Not sure the if you are using a 390 or a...

Well, I can live without the counter balance shaft. but not the electric starter. Looks like a phone call is in order.

It is not a bushing cam side cover it is a cam bearing side cover. Otis would take standard tiller coolbore 5hp blocks and WELD in a cam...

How about the counteweight shaft? Where do that go? The question was about why the counterweight balance is not to be used.

Does the new cover not have an bushing hole for the shaft tip? I see one insertion point on this side cover for what I guess is the...

ARC had pretty good customer service if you call. I know Jody Powell has a video on installation (for small blocks) but no clue if he...