I've got the same three-way gauges in my 72 Nova, I bought it back in 1989 and have yet to hook up the amp gauge😅 my aluminum Flex fan has been laying in the yard for the past 10 years
I agree with you 110% on the first 4. Disagree entirely on the glass fuel filter. Around here things rust and rot fast and our fuel is filled full of crap. I swear by the see-throughs that you can clean on the side of the road in 2 minutes flat and be on your way. You just have to mount them wisely and they're plenty rugged. Use properly sized constant torque clamps on the fuel line, right before and right after the filter, and you're gold. Nice vid. Cool channel too.
Thanks! Since they make clear plastic fuel filters I don’t see the point but ford tractors had glass sediment bowls on the carbs but they were rigid mounted. So like I said in video of you mount then right it’s not bad. Most people don’t.
@Shop209 You're Welcome. What's good about the glass design is that the element can be cleaned and is reusable, multiple times. This way when she blocks up you can clearly see what doing the blocking(which can be helpful at times) and then you simply spray it out with carb cleaner. Plus, the element is larger and it takes 2-3 times as much crap to block one of those that it does the little plastic ones. It winds up being a much, much more economical system, and I'm ALL about economical. I earn it hard and therefore part with it harder, but that's me. Cool Nova btw. I like the Mad Max look, reminds me of the steel I ran when I was a kid.
Great video. I had an aftermarket amp gauge on my 67 chevelle when I was 17 and it caused a no start condition. I had to jump the solenoid on that inline 6 with a screwdriver. Mechanic at the gas station I worked at got sick of seeing me always starting my car with a screwdriver and he offered to troubleshoot. He disconnected the amp gauge and my starting problems went away.
I recently ran that air edelbrock air filter and they must have changed the filter material because it never did burn up after a backfire. Years ago i had one that i was replacing the filter every week but this last one lasted a whole year and still looks new. I also ran the glass fuel filter against my better judgement lol it held but its gone now for sefeteys.
The amp gauge was a thro back from the days of generators The old generators had a separate regulator. It regulated amps and volt s To keep a batt up both had to be Seth at the factory. Interned the alternator, as long as you have correct voltage the crazy thing will produce enough amps. The alternator is made for the correct amps.
With number 1, I have to say I agree, because yeah, IF someone mounts that fuel filter rigidly, it probably won't have issues. The problem is that a lot of guys are like " it's thick glass, it can handle it" but they are wrong, because of it being glass. They hook it up, they do it quickly, and they have it in a bad spot, and when they hit that gas pedal, it smacks into the exhaust,or the block, or the intake, it cracks, and boom. There goes the car. I've always been nervous about glass anything being under the hood of my cars, because if it breaks, there's gonna be something or someone leaking, and I don't want that.
@@Shop209 oh you know it. With my last few vehicles, I haven't bothered modifying them, but whenever I do mess with the fuel system, I make sure to use the aluminum shell fuel filter, just because it's less likely to give me any headaches.
I agree with every one of them! Although I would flip #3 and #1 simply because of the number of people who used them, I don't remember many, if anyone honestly who ever put a glass fuel in a car simply becaus eof the shure stupidity of the idea of putting gas into glass on the bottom of a car where ricks, mud and god knows what will hit it.
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯 In my opinion, flex fans are the worst. They flex, then they eventually break then go through the hood. (Or worse, they go through you while working on the car). Avoid them like the plague.
@@Shop209I’ve worry about it breaking. I’ve heard all the stories. But mine is located vertically, very close to the pump and under the alternator. So it’s not near anything that it can rattle against or break. I do have Wix plastic filter to replace it with when I replace the dead fuel level sensor in the tank and all the rubber lines from the tank to the carb.
Dishonorable mentions: 1. Splitfire spark plugs. In the 90s and 00s when a vehicle came to my shop with a strange drivability problem, I would yank a plug. If it was one of those porcelain problems, I would replace the entire set and the drivability issue would go away. Expensive junk. 2. Accel parts. They might have improved in the last 30 years, but I still avoid them, especially the coils. They start fine, run good up to about 3500 maybe 4000rpm, then start doing weird things.
