The Jalopy Journal
Funny, all my SAE spanners are in a box under the bench and haven't seen the light of day for at least 10 years. I also find it funny the States...
It was quite common to turn the stubs for Bedford CF vans to put Holden brakes on them back in the 80's and 90's so it must be done. I'm home...
On an OT truck I have the engine in the bed and radiator up front. All fed thru 1.5"alloy tube and a stock LS3 waterpump. Never overheats and has...
Go here. https://vintage-vans.forumotion.com/forum Plenty of good advice and solutions.
Since you're talking a 4 cylinder you won't be handling huge HP or Torque. Look at European vehicles from the 30's to 70's. Citroen had inline...
I have an OT custom that runs a mid mounted V8 with the engine facing the rear of the car but in front of the rear axle. The drive goes from the...
He raced the car as the factory built it LHD but to register it the car had to be converted to RHD to satisfy our old road rules.
Trailer discs are generally not ventilated. Why would you run un-ventilated discs on the front of any car? My car runs 4 wheel ventilated discs...
To save blowing fuses put a light bulb across the fuse contacts. When the bulb lights you have a short to ground. Disconnect a circuit at a time...
I once shorted out the start relay, wich is after the neutral safety switch, in my car and it was in reverse. The relay is located right at the...
I run one on my OT modified vehicle. It runs a high pressure EFI pump. They are known as Tachometric relays in Australia and they are used on cars...
D rings for me on my trailer. I've winched a 3500LB car onto the trailer off the D rings.
I use an LPG tachometric relay. It runs the fuel pump for a few seconds once the ignition is turned on and shuts down. Once you turn the key to...
When checking Camber make sure the floor the car is parked on is level across the car. Most garage floor have some slope for drainage and if you...
Do that where i live (NSW Australia) and you will get a fine of around US$1,000.00. Probably why we have little or no problem with Corvid-19 We...
90% of the World's Farmers use Metric threads on everything they own. Of course they live outside the USA. The only country of any note still...
I ran an Specialist Insurance Company (like Haggarty) for 25 years and the number of times I've come up against dumb Assessors is nuts. The...
The journey not the destination. I'd rather drive my OT Mercedes than something I built that isn't fast enough to excite me.
I didn't think we could weld steering components without X-Ray'ing them.
I had a bunch or R10's over my poor years when I purchased my first house. Great car for the times. I almost purchased an R8 Gordini sans engine....
Multiple lists in Excel. I can sort it into any order I want, add things without having to rewrite it. Works for me over the last 5 projects.
1967 at Castlereagh Drag Strip in outer Sydney Australia. E. J. Potter was there as well as Wild Bill Shrewsbury. I will never forget the night...
My car trailer lives on the street chained to a telegraph pole. To stop people running into it I have a 12volt battery mounted on it with a solar...
Our worst fire, the Shoalhaven fire, is now officially out. It burnt through 449,621 Hectares, destroyed 312 homes and 173 damaged but 1889 saved...
We've had a bit of rain in the last 24 hours and things have improved. Half of NSW (the State with Sydney in it) is currently under extreme fire...
The original Grizzlys (like HRP's) and other odd names came from Taiwan and were really quite good quality. I have one that is about 30 years old...
When it rains.
I had a similar problem with an OT Lancia 037. The head was porous and we used a Loctite product to seal the water passages. Google may be your...
I've driven through some of our fire areas since the fires started and the devastation hasn't been seen on the scale ever in Australia. Sure...
I'll fess up to doing something stupid. I have a non-HAMB friendly Pick Up with the engine in the rear AKA Little Red Wagon. I wanted to start it...
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