The Jalopy Journal
I am clearing out a large collection of 1949 1950 and 1951 Ford parts including fenders, hoods, trim, interior parts, engine parts, and a couple...
My brother is the one with the couple, I will have to tell him to get back on. College has put the build on hold for the time being Sent from my...
I have ended up converting to a TCP manual rack and pinion now. Easily one of the best upgrades for the vehicle so far. The bearings would up...
so as always playing with everything on the car but the largest and most recent addition was a unisteer rack and pinion. From what I read they...
Panhard works great and I'll post more pics and info on that soon. In bad need of new Springs with much higher spring rate. Either going global...
Making a pan hard rod for the ranchero
Looks great. Love seeing a 4 door come together and especially from someone of similar age
So the most recent thing has been installing frame bracing and replacing rotten floor pan. The frame was bent well over 1/2 inch and it was...
So long story short bent housing bent axle shaft and toasted spider gears. Going back together now and everything looks good except the axle shaft...
Been having fun with the brakes recently. The master cylinder I installed was for drum brakes and it turns out it had 10 lb residual valves...
Shocks are noticeably larger and do a much better job of keeping the rear planted. The car is now incredibly fun to drive with handling and...
The ranchero gets a little bit of love and safety this time around
Finding a good complete 5.0 could be difficult. An observation I have made is how the 5.0 only makes power over 3k and gets into it around 4k....
The ranchero has been running nicely the past few weeks up until Friday. My brother and I got to take a trip down HWY 1 with it through LA and it...
Clutch
Took it to the alignment shop and have been running it a bunch these past few days. I must say between the Shelby drop and going from positive...
Here are pictures of the two tires that were on the rear axle and as you can they were both wearing extensively on the passenger side
Fabbed up a quick Shelby drop piece as per dazecars instructions moving the upper control arms down 1 inch and back 1/8 inch so once i get the...
Here are a few photos of the underside. The last pic is of the original sub frame compared against the 1/8 wall tubing I'm going to be using for...
I apologize for the lack of pictures. I have uploaded a few but most of the work has been done in mad scrambles on the weekends to keep it...
Hmm alright thanks for that thought I will go ahead and check to see if the axle is square in the body and Springs by taking some measurements and...
Havent had much time to play with it or change too much because of school how ever this weekend I created a new transmission mount and weldeed in...
Spent a long day dropping the engine and trans in, doing some reinforcements to the sub frame, and in general getting it running. The timing...
I have it positioned at tdc at the moment so when I reassemble I will see and update. Today I got the transmissions set up with the slave...
Started today by pulling the engine and trans from the ranchero. got the last of the parts I needed in yesterday for the swap. Am going with...
A small observation I made is that 1963 Ford Ranchero clutch pedal is infact different in shape to the 65 Mustang and Falcon clutch pedals. It...
Alright so after more driving I got the tv cable tuned in and the trans shifting how I wanted it to. Unfortunately this past week on my way home...
The line was plastic and I have since updated to copper. After a week of waiting I finally got the parts and got everything back together. From...
I dropped the pan and my ARP oil pump drive shaft is in fine condition. I had oil moving through the system just no pressure which lead me to...
well recently the Ranchero has been nothing but problems. Two weeks ago I was hanging out at a country club in a very nice part of town and it...
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