The Jalopy Journal
Generally when you take a generator apart the brushes are easily replaced...not so with a starter! I recently had an occasion to remove a good...
Well I've been at this (hotrods) a very long time. A couple days ago we were getting the car ready for a local car-show. I waited to the last...
Hi Gents I tried to post video of my project but had lots of difficulty. Finally signed up with UTube and got it done. File is too big to post...
Hi gents finally my supercharged Merc is running. Lots of brackets and special devices to get her running and looking right! Some details: . 53...
Hi Gents... Finally got my supercharged Merc running. Necessary to make lots of "stuff". The coolest part was adapting the blow-thru McCullough...
HI Gents... Found a very very nice flathead starter. Thats the good news, the bad is, it's too long for my 8RT bell housing starter "can". This...
Well my buddy come over to see how the McCulloch / Merc marriage is coming along. He said that thing needs wire looms. I said too much money for...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Hi gents... My Fi PUP project is moving along. Some of the stuff: I have just finished rebuilding...
Hi gents... Searched the data base and lots of data but nothing seems to direct me to the right adapter. Essentially I want to use a modern AFB...
Hi gents...seems the older I get the dumber I get. I knew I was going to modify a Chevy marine distributor to fit an 8BA. So I put my prized Tex...
We were at a local car-show (Baytown's 28th annual) when some guy approached me with a question that I should have known the answer to. He said...
Seems awhile back hotrod forum folks (HAMB, Fordbarn etc.) had a myriad of stories about responses to add (s) that started with I'll send you a...
Hi gents... I love era correct hotrods...maybe it's because I'm getting older! Soooo here is the dilemma: I am absolutely positive that what I...
Well gents I considered myself somewhat of a "W" motor reservoir of information. I was a drag race teenage nutcase during that period. I have...
Hi gents... Recently posted a 50 Ford vert on E-Bay for sale. The eventual "winner" was a gent named Mike Lawson, obviously a very common name,...
Hi gents... Somebody please measure a Merc piston (4" stroke) for me. I need the pin height. Pin CL to top of dome or pin CL to top of ring land....
Hi gents... I got tired of using the "broom stick" hood prop so I decided to bite the bullet and install the stock prop...well after looking at...
Hi gents... I was musing about the things that you only do once unless you're a "maroon"! I'll start with only three of my zillions! Put a clutch...
Hi gents... Try as I may I can't seem to find an answer to my clutch pivot question: The clutch pivot (butterfly shaped devise) obviously pilots...
I'll start... it wasn't a new car it never is. This beauty was on a turntable at a local used car lot! A black 59 Impala coupe' tri-power factory...
Hi gents... The latest in curves thrown at me by the "Car From Hell". Repaired the "bent" armature by replacing armature, front bearing, rear...
Hi gents... My 52 F1 project came to me as a "kit". Most of it was in the bed sitting on plywood. Regardless that was 8 years ago and it's coming...
It's always a new day with the old car projects. The latest is: I'm trying to locate a intermitant squeak / squeal at run spead. After checking...
Hi gents...The CFH has generally been a pain for years. I / We have redone, repaired or replaced every component that can be unbolted, un-rivited...
Got up early Saturday planning to go to a "come as you are" car show. Just an informal get-together at a local Home Depot parking lot. Plan was...
Hi gents... I want to put poverty caps (bottle caps) on my 40 Ford axle Front and back. As you all know the rear axle spindle sticks out a long...
Hi gents.. As most know Henry was a proponent of rubber isolators for mechanical voltage regulators. I got to thinking that if Henry was concerned...
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