The Jalopy Journal
I’ve had T5s in a number of ot cars with a variety of rear end gear ratios behind small block Ford engines. My favorite combination ends up being...
Removing the trees from the neighbor’s property without permission is an entirely different situation. Trimming is fine, though. Getting an...
His insurance won’t typically cover damage on or to your property. That’s all on your own property insurance. That’s the way it is…read your...
They had plastic cam gear teeth at least as early as 1967. Mine stripped out right in front of the entrance to my apartment building. Guess...
352 was available at least through 67 in pickups. 360 came along later. Probably 68, from memory. A 352 should clean up to a standard 390 bore...
Pretty sure that’s how they lift them in the factory (from memory). The lift hooks don’t get assembled until the engine is nearly fully dressed....
I suspect you would want to use Huck Bolts instead of regular nuts and bolts when reassembling a frame. Huck bolts are commonly used to assemble...
Got metal in my eye, had it removed, and bought safety glasses with side shields. After it happened the second time I actually started wearing...
Funny how perspective changes with time. I was pretty young when the industry dropped the rear pump en masse, but distinctly remember the...
Some of the power glides behind four cylinder engines in the circa 68 and up era Nova weren’t fully automatic, if my memory is correct. They had...
Sounds like, while the original drawings may have been to scale, or close to it, the process of printing may have rendered the “patterns” less...
Tony Angelo has his own YouTube channel.
I got dragged into a wild goose chase twenty years ago chasing mysteriously dropped valves and sheared keepers that the field service guys were...
As long as you have another car to play with in Mi, leave this one in storage. That’s what we ended up doing, albeit in Az and Mi. I can’t see...
68 Lincoln, 365 hp and 500 ft lb of torque.
That’s where I am. I’ll be 73 in three more months, and have come to realize that I will likely never finish even one of my projects, but I am ok...
I think it’s a stretch to imply that interest in only HAMB friendly cars is the reason for the disdain of the first HR quarterly issue. In my...
Posting a list of oils and their composition from almost thirteen years ago is a nice history lesson, but isn’t very relevant today. I would bet...
Don’t be so sure. RTV netted me a free Ranger pickup when the original, never opened Lima four cylinder engine lost oil pressure and grenaded....
Bitterly disappointed. I had a distaste for Pro Street forty years ago, and my opinion hasn’t changed. I usually hang onto magazines, but this...
Back then there were a couple of different axle ratings for the Bronco. The higher load capacity axles likely got the bigger brakes, too.
Speaking from my experience as a diesel combustion development engineer from when dinosaurs roamed the earth, chamfering the edge like that will...
I have a Lokar in the 36 pickup (353/350). It’s fine. I have a “race type”, which requires a secondary operation to pass through the neutral...
I had a 69 Boss 302 and that’s how I remember it. Mine was “upgraded” to a dual point 289 hipo mechanical advance distributor which was an over...
That’s good point. Truck engines operate under inherently different conditions, if they’re used like trucks, then car engines do. The engine...
Flatheads have terribly high specific heat rejection with the way the exhaust ports are routed. On the other hand, heat rejection is a function...
They’ve been on the HD site for a while, but I think they’re actually drop shipped to the store or your house/business from Primeweld in New...
Yea. I’m still stuck where the 289 is THE SBF, and the 302/5.0 is new fangled.
I didn’t buy them. I used to get free “ engineering sample” engine parts through vendors. Miss those days. They must have been long skirts. I...
Boss 302 and 289 share the same rod length. Prod pass car and truck have unique rods, not common with the 289 or Boss.
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