i was looking at my rear struts and noticed there is a big nut, similar to the one on the frint struts to lock the cartridges.  ive been told these are are sealed units and the big nut is the oil seal.  but has anyone ever opened them to see whats inside.  and what is the chance of putting  a cartridge back instead of the standard assembly?  

Get to the SDS  manual on the pulley magnet alignment page as a fefrence.  OK, now get a compass and a piece of paper, measure the OD of the PS pulley.  Now pick a point on the center of the paper and make a small dot, now make a circle just a half millimeter bigger than the PS pulley.  Now using that  center dot, draw a line though the center, you will have 2 lines 180 degrees apart relitive the center dot.  If you have a 3 magmet setup, mark another line from the center dot to the edge of the

Ok ive been looking into making a carbonfiber hood for my 86 conquest.  I have some skill in fiber glass and the process is much the same.  so here is what im thinking, my hood is Fed  it's red so it's faded and the paint is screwed from the heat and a hard life.  however it has no dings or dents so what im going to do is: prep it up nice, coat it well with wax or mold release, and get some sheets of CF cloth and lay them out with say a 4inch overlap  resign up the sheets smooth them out once it

I am running an SDs EM4-E with the MSD ignition. I know I do not need the vac advance any longer, and that I can remove that. What about the other dist internals? Leave em or take em out? I didnt see anywhere in the SDS manual where I need to hook any electronics to my dist, so I am assuming I can just remove anything not used. Any info would be great here. Thanks.   Terry