The Jalopy Journal
I took this pic saturday at the heads up drags.
Generations of my family have worked in machine shops, welders,machinist and millwrights Ive got to say I dig the fuck out of all that machinery...
Thanks!
Here's the other crack. 50 bucks a cap is a lil much.
Thank you sir,I hear nuthin but great stuff about you and your place.Heres the pics.
Hey,I bought a mallory dist. for my 59a I rebuilt this year.Well I put a pertronix unit in it but Ive gone through two distributor caps this...
I bet a good machinist could fix it.Get it on a mill face off the broke peice make a plate with dowel pins, drill and tap the block and bolt her...
Yeah my 59a dash gauge will peg out on a hot day,checked her with a temp gun 190-200 on a 95 degree day.
Ha ha its all good man.Im just so happy my cars runnin right finally.
Man all the suggestions are great! Well I put the solinoid wires on backwards coupled with the fact that I pretty sure the remaned alt might have...
I had the solinoid wires crossed,I put a one wire alt. on and its chargin proper.Now with alternator hook up the car runs terrible I cut the wire...
All right did a little more check and my block has voltage 2v only when its runnin.Somthing is short out somwhere.
Yea it said neg. right off the get go.That kinda threw me off.Now the other new alternator was puttin out.62.When I flipped the wires on the one I...
Pretty straight up thing.
Yea its grounded then I was just tryin it out got real hot and started stinkin I shut her down.Right before that my volt meter read -13v at the...
Yea its the internal regulated one.This really has me stumped.I think this has been my whole problem for awhile now.Your diagram is how I have her...
I cant get my alternator to put out! Its a three wire and I have 12v exciter goin to one with 12v then two jumps to the terminal on the back.Its a...
heh heh Out of shear desperation I disconnected the alternater to see what would happen....she runs fine,I screwed up sumthin somewhere.Drove her...
I narrowed it down to the carb and Im with ya about the holley.Im just gonna put out the money on the edlebrock 94 and get it over with.Ive come...
I didnt get the pv yet so I plugged mine just to see what would happen.She ran considerbly smoother.The only jets I could get were .058 and I had...
Haha Ive been lookin at the edlebrock 94...but man 350.00 oof.Id like to try another carb out before shellin out that green.Ive had the carb apart...
All right it runs different know it has power but you get cruisin and she starts missing.You let her set and idle its fine.Ive been reading about...
I put a fuel line straight from a gas can to the pump and nuthin well it squirts but barely with the filter after pump.Ive been screwin with this...
That carter pump is exactly what I was lookin for,thanks you two
Ive been kinda strugglin to get flattie runnin proper for a little while now but I think Im on too somthin.It has a isky max cam but built mild,...
Your grandma likes my backseat too;)
I like fordors alot.
I think Im gonna buy a mallory dist. next month. I always said I'd keep points forever on my shovel till I switched to a dyna ign. and it runs...
Oh sh@! I screwed up! I put a 6 volt coil in with a resister which it said it didnt need,then I had a 12v coil with no resister which I should of...
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