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When I finally got the assembly manual and then looked at some new ones, it is a ridge/groove arrangement.

I have been to several forums with little luck. '72 Commando with the hood popped up on the windshield end. Is this weak springs or do the hinges need replaced? The pins on the hinge assemblies are really loose in the holes. Are these hinges compatible with any FSJ? I can align the hood...

When I got down to cleaning these little guys, I discovered that it was actually a ridge and a groove. This made it obvious that I needed to line them up. When I first looked at them they were so cruddy I thought they were both grooves. When I got the dental pick in there, I discovered it was...

Yep, true dat. Even after the moment of awareness, I still put the the dizzy in 180 out. Turns out that even by aligning the marks on the gears, you aren't guaranteed that is the compression stroke. Nope, that would be when the marks are at 1 and 3 with 15 pins between, apparently.

This is probably elementary to most out there, but I had an epiphany and thought I would bounce it off the board to get some thoughts. I just put a new cam, lifters, timing chain, etc. in my 258 to refresh it a little. While setting the timing marks and such, I realized the true meaning and...

I failed to mention that this is for the 258 I6.

Okay, so I remembered to put everything in order and label it and number it and so forth, except for the rocker pivots. They have angled oil guides. For example , the pivot retainer for #1 cylinder can go back on left-ways or right-ways. Question is, do I line up the oil guides, or cross...

Yeah...I kind of got that....unfortunately, I swapped out the plugs when I got it, and put in those pulstar plugs, p/n BE1, which fit a crapload of applications. They actually are just short of the .750" reach, but did have the 5/8" shell. They didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever, and...

'72 commando with EFI intake manifold but with the Carter carb...okay...think it's from somewhere around '82...not for sure. Went to put new plugs in it, but Advance Auto gave me 13/16" plugs and they don't fit. I had 5/8" plugs in it, but didn't check when I went to get the new ones...

That's an excellent, easy suggestion. I put in those pulstar things last year, but they don't seem to be doing much for me. I don't know what the smell was like before, when I bought it, because it was leaking gas around the plugged off pollution holes, then I did the tune-up and fixed the...

I have searched the forum, but there are 500 hits that come up dry as far was I was willing to look. My '72 Commando has the original 258, but the intake is newer, with blocked off emissions ports. The manifold heater is missing. I have a huge problem spitting raw and not fully burned product...