Got to spend a week in Colorado and see what's happened with the kids 1949 GMC in the last year or so. Pretty much all disassembled. I'll add...
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This would make a nice beginning for someone: http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/carsforsale/chevrolet/3600/1567641.html?refer=news
certainly interesting and relatively inexpensive: http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/carsforsale/dodge/unspecified/1566427.html?refer=news
I asked, and it's the default price for items currently out of stock. When back in stock, price reverts to normal.
But you did figure out the perfect answer. After you look up the torque setting, you'll have the answer to all those unasked questions, also...
Certainly looks like it...
You have yet to say whether there was a gasket in the lid. That should be obvious, but it has to be known to go further with suggestions...
Create a how-to folder in your bookmarks. Mine is a subfolder of GMC, but yours can be anything that makes sense to you. Go to each of his...
Google 'heavy chevy' and they're first on the list.
Note that he also has round parking lights on the front fenders, like the GMCs. I believe that was what he was asking about...
They look like GMC front lamps to me. Check the usual catalogs...
You would. Right again... 1. yep 2. all over the map. take your time 3. lots of places to look - speed shops, ebay, craigslist 4....
How did you determine this was a 228 GMC? Number stamped on the block to the left of the distributor, or the word of someone else? That might...
Looks like a Chevy engine to me...
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