YoBrother

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I did some looking and watched a youtube video on torque converters. Like you I am sorta confused about it all. There was one thing I saw where they said if you raise the stall speed too high you end up slower off the line. Also like you said the bigger engines raise the stall speed. I don't get it. It seems like matching the torque converter to the engine and trany is an art or takes trial and error. My feeling is go conservative for drivability and to avoid lowering performance inadvertently.

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Yeah to me that seems like too high of a stall speed. If it were me, I would be looking for just a little more pep, not race ready.

Great research!

Looking great!

No expert here, but I have had drums go on hard, then after pumping the brakes, the shoes lined up with the drum. Then everything worked. Sometimes the shoes need to skootch around in there to get aligned. But otherwise yeah, sucks getting a tight drum off. While you are at it, replace that dinky little pumpkin with a 1 ton ford strait axle. You will be rock crawling in no time! Put one on the front too!

lookin good!

Shiny!

Nice!

Modelo is a fine finish.

Looking good. Making it yours!

I noticed it was super cold there the last couple of weeks. Glad to see you are back at it.

Bourbon is an excellent bodywork finish!

It looks good. I watch videos on YouTube of pro body men doing work. They never work on rusted out stuff. So there is nothing to compare it to. They just replace everything. But if you can't replace everything with new parts then this is what you have to do. The body men probably would either not do it or do what you are doing. Can't weld it either. Weld warps everything. Most fabricators figure out with a vison in their mind of what the end product will be. That is exactly what you are doing. Good luck and remember to have fun!

Love your videos. Thank you communists in China! Ha ha (9. Video 3.MOV)

If its not one thing then its another, LOL. Eventually you will have the big kinks sorted out. Keep your chin up its going to be great to drive it around this spring and hit some Nisan group events.

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Great progress looks great! Good to see you are staying healthy!

Looks great. I am looking forward to seeing how the emblems and etc. turn out.

Very nice. The interior is really looking great. You are going to like sitting in there. Have you considered creating an armrest for the center console like dad had done?

Lookin sharp!

The inside of the doors are not too bad. Doors can be awful. Are you going to treat the rust inside of the door? Looks like they have drain holes which can be a great way to save them.

Man, looks nice!

Wow, really looking great! louvers stay.