The Jalopy Journal
I think the later model 460s were externally balanced. 1979 might have been the change year. I think the bolt pattern on the crankshaft might be...
It might just be a matter of shimming it. It may have been shimmed and the shims were removed or wore out. You would need the staggered shims. and...
I vowed never to be one of those scooter guys who just rudely push their way through crowds. When we get old, what doesn't hurt, doesn't work....
Some of the starters that bolt to the block need to be shimmed for proper clearance. In the past you could count the teeth on the flywheel to...
The reason you see so many cop cars in Polk County is because it is a major meth and other drug trafficking area. 47 charged in undercover meth...
I don't think it can be licensed as a 32 Ford. Many years ago I put a different body on a Scout frame. Originally I was told that the vehicle...
Get a lawyer!
Something easy to do is to change air pressure in the tires. How much shock travel does it have? What is the ratio of compression to rebound of...
See if the parts store can get that same alternator in the one wire version. All you need to do is connect it to the battery positive terminal...
They were called trouble lights for a reason! There are any number of much better cordless LED lights that fit in confined spaces powered by...
This is the reason that the automakers switched to alternators. Generators are just too much of a hassle to keep working. You will have to learn...
Does that strap connect the battery terminal to the terminal that goes into the starter or just from the battery terminal to the S terminal?...
That's what you want. If the seal moves on the shaft, the hole eventually wears out. For the seal to work like an umbrella, it doesn't have to fit...
I've only seen pink transmission fluid a few times and each time it was accompanied by pink coolant as the coil in the radiator leaked and mixed...
For work, I bought metric or tapes marked in tenths of feet instead of inches. They were always easy to find. I could hear the guy who "borrowed"...
That's what the raised toilet seats are for. [IMG]
If you have a hard bolt to try to drill out, anneal it first. Heat it up with a torch until it's cherry red then back the torch off slowly to...
You know a nightmare is a dream?
These are a thieves best friend. [IMG]
The only purpose of many of the performance and mileage gimmicks of the past and today is to separate people from their money.
There are springs and sometimes valving that allow one piston to move before the other. Once the fluid pressure starts to build, the second piston...
You could put a female receptacle on the trailer and use a cord with the wires switched around so there is no cord to pug into the thieves tow...
Will we see a Banks dyno?
In further testing of a differential cover, he wanted to run on the dyno for 2 hours at 70 mph. [MEDIA]
I know an item is on a table or bench but can't find it until I look elsewhere and come back to find it right where I thought it was in the first...
Last winter, I needed something from my pole building. I don't normally go out to it in the winter so haven't blown a path there for the past few...
They cranked too slow. Always hated them when trying to start a flooded car in the winter and it seemed that Mopar owners were adept at flooding...
We installed a new Cummins M11 engine in a material handler and had what sounded like a belt squeal at high rpm under load. We tried changing...
Yes, many screens have a half inch hole in the center that is normally pressed against the plate across the center of the screen. If the screen...
I thought I was the only one!
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