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I have built a drive for a drill motor attached to an old oil pump that I can submerge into a pail of fresh oil. You might need a reversible 1/2"...
The best car there, IMO [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
That seems to be way too tall for the normal currently available So-Cal type shock. here is what Chassis Engineering told me 9 years ago when...
What belongs there. [ATTACH]
Here is an original paint 5 window rear quarter / rocker attachment. You can see the lead fill job to blend in the quarter to the rocker. [ATTACH]
Here's a photo of my `32 roadster cowl / rocker open seam. Here you can see the indent in the rocker for the cowl to set in, so it's aligned...
Here is a photo of a `32 roadster with the rear quarter attached to the rocker with an open seam. Although most I have seen have been welded shut...
This is my roadster rear quarter attachment to the rocker showing original ( I believe) welded to the rocker., you can see where I cut it off with...
This is a photo of my roadster cowl attached to the rocker with an open seam. [ATTACH]
Here is a way to bolt a 59a block to a `32 frame. [ATTACH]
The stock `32 firewall is an art form as they were made in 1932. It sounds like what you have in mind is to make it look like a Model "A" ( they...
Jim Coffey, on his way to "Back to the Fifties"a few years ago, in my old 5W. [ATTACH]
A friend of mine just bought this real `32 roadster that was built as a hot rod in Southern California in the late 1940's. It has the original `32...
You can fix the swelled out threads this way: crack an old 5/8-18 die in half by grinding a "vee" around one side, then hold it in a vise and...
The problem is, there is no TDC mark on the flathead crank pulley. Ford never intended owners to be able to use a timing light to set the timing....
Thank you for posting all those great real photos, without any enhancements.
[ATTACH] It fits right in, If you have a stock "K" member with a `32 rear trans mount on the back of your `39 trans. that places the engine right...
And a real 3w is different from a roadster or a 5w , as shown below. [ATTACH]
Here is an original section of `32 5w wheel well, showing the small formed rib in the floor sill to clear a frame rivet. You can see how the...
A 5w does not have that pronounced rib ( to clear the frame rivet) like the roadster has. That is one detail that Brookville duplicated in their...
I believe this is an original [ATTACH]
Doesn't the piece in your second photo just fit up inside the piece in your third photo that is threaded on there? It also looks like a larger...
Back in the mid seventies, just after American Graffiti came out, a talented hot rodder who lived near me built the first chopped `49 Merc I'd...
I thought the front seats were similar to the 2dr sedan, in that they tilt forward to allow the back seat passengers in. And the door construction...
I put a Pertronix on my 59a block. It bolts right on the points plate in place of the points. I was concerned that the timing would not be...
That's a 5/8-18 thread, don't try to run a die on from the outside. It's way too easy to cross thread it. Rather grind a vee in one side of a die...
I have found that some of the reproduction guides have inconsistent depths on those grooves, so the "O" rings would not go in far enough to allow...
I would be horrified to have something like that in my machine shop. Surely you wouldn't want to operate that with a foot pedal switch, that would...
Noel Mauer, Dubuque, Iowa . Built this car in his high school shop class in 1956 and he still has it. [MEDIA] [ATTACH]
Steering geometry According to what I've read on the subject, if the tire center line contacts the pavement outside of the extended kingpin center...
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