My 74 restoration, 396 stroker

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09-23-2017, 07:28 AM

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They are sold by brake companies over here and should be the copper/nickel ones

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09-23-2017, 06:08 PM

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Rosslato, I hope you have read this. These are not ordinary soft copper lines. Copper work hardens and then cracks. Lou.

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09-23-2017, 06:39 PM

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They are sold by brake companies over here and should be the copper/nickel ones

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09-24-2017, 12:42 AM

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Rosslato, I hope you have read this. These are not ordinary soft copper lines. Copper work hardens and then cracks. Lou.

I'm talking about the Copper brake lines that O'reilly and Autozone etc sell for replacing Brake Lines!

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09-24-2017, 12:03 PM

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I did not know that they have started selling copper-nickel brake lines, now. I have seen people using straight copper tubing and compression fittings on brake lines in the past. Lou.

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09-25-2017, 04:09 PM

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Starting to look like a whole restoration

Hoping I'm getting my 396 stroker this week

Just ordered new Spicer solid u-joints

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09-26-2017, 03:40 PM

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Finished with the floors now

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09-28-2017, 01:54 PM

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Floors look really nice, looking forward to see pictures of the motor

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09-29-2017, 01:59 AM

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Got it yesterday really nice!

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09-29-2017, 02:34 PM

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Started making new fuellines

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10-01-2017, 02:06 AM

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Took forever to get it right, hard to measure..

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10-01-2017, 02:09 AM

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Look great, love the contrast of brass fittings with polished metal and aluminium.

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10-01-2017, 03:32 AM

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Yeah I like the look gonna polish the brass also

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10-01-2017, 06:12 AM

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Nice Crocks!

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10-01-2017, 02:19 PM

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Painted the block black, tested the header, gonna look great

New flywheel

And clutch

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10-01-2017, 03:18 PM

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If I may ask. Where did you buy the engine and who did you use for shipping it to Europe? I also live in Europe and have been looking for a new engine also.
You can pm me if you want.

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10-01-2017, 04:16 PM

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No worries I bought it at www.jegs.com
Then I got in contact with a shipping company called Shopusa
Shipped it to their address in Virginia beach and they sent it here to me, worked great

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10-01-2017, 04:18 PM

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No worries I bought it at www.jegs.com
Then I got in contact with a shipping company called Shopusa
Shipped it to their address in Virginia beach and they sent it here to me, worked great

What was the price of shipping to Sweden?

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