The Jalopy Journal
We swapped a newer one into a slightly older truck and kept it 6 lug. The rear was from the truck 'yard and the width was what we were after. It...
I'm 69 and had my Ford out yesterday in spite of my lower back being OUT. I had a pain patch on and was otherwise medicated. I did a few things on...
I made my mounts from what I had around, 1/2" x 4" hot rolled steel and black pipe nipples. I wish I took some pictures of them. I made a...
We used to buy AV gas from a Beechcraft facility, I would bring my cans up to the truck on the tarmac, pay in the office. IIRC, it was $2 a gallon...
I was looking for a 351C or 429/460 for my Ford. I wanted a complete engine, the accessories would nickel and dime me to death, plus add time to...
I'm dealing with a severe pain issue that may never be solved, that is what hampers anything I get into. I'm lucky to have deeper pockets than...
Been a while since I had my paws on an FE, maybe one of the experts here could chime in. In one of these photos, I see a plug where the cam is...
That is my ultimate bucket list car.
Starting fluid will wash down cylinders and cause the engine to kick backwards. I had one blow the nose cone off a BBC starter in a stock car that...
I worked with a guy whose FIL rented out houses in the area. One tenant moved out and left a pair of SBC engines in the garage, full set up with...
The pump may need a reducer to cut the pressure down, these are common items, easily found. Do some research first to see if others have run...
This place sold me the works, I had it all. It went on nicely too.
I had a stock car with a mysterious water leak that got me black flagged in 2 races. So we looked for a water leak and found it, the plug behind...
Got an auto body supply store around? Go talk to them, that is my best advice. I used an Omni product on my car and it worked well, needed to use...
You could scour the classifieds for a donor booster, but you're in the UK. It gets complicated. The Ford Barn has a good classified section, eBay...
Dorman makes expandable rubber plugs. I have used them in the past where pulling the engine was not an option.
I'm not even going to try... I'll shop a couple of places, price and delivery. Something I should have done in the fall. I'll push it off if it is...
Aka Gorilla Snot. We used that for years at the corners of the intake gaskets and let it sit overnight. They always stayed put. 3M also makes a...
These were really pivot pins, nothing more or less. Nothing went through them.
I shot mine up with carb cleaner, plugged it up and let it sit for a day of so, then blew it out. Nothing really funky came out. I had placed a...
There is a hobby "chrome" paint made by Revell of Germany. Obviously formulated for plastic models. Supposedly it gives great results. It is hard...
I used this on my 355 build. Take care to mask off where you do not want it... a real bugger to get off later. It has a "pot" life of about 5...
Erk... some of those are 1/2 way out to the radiator wall once installed. This is why I passed on a booster on my car. How about a '65-'66 stock...
I have ran the Holley equivalent for years on a BBC. I have a shop local that does my stock Q-Jets, money well spent.
I bought mine around 1991 from MSC, have logged thousands of paid parts finishing on it. I use it mostly for polishing car chrome these days. I...
I have a mexican blanket on my front seat, big safety pins holding it together. I just got back into the car yesterday and realized that the seat...
Some shops are not as busy as they were 3 or 4 years ago, maybe they are padding their rates to make the monthly nut? I have seen a few "good"...
I'd drive that... :D:D:D
We had a quasi-scandal at work surrounding some crimped wires on ground-based test equipment for the USAF. This was work we brought back from a...
We had some shafts at work that were used on a bomb rack that we built many thousands of, they were sold all over the world to friendly air...
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