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Many years ago I had a 1974 AMC with the 304 V8 that I had purchased new. After a (in my opinion) short 4 years I noticed an antifreeze leak from...
Those who are familiar with us know that we also rebuild early Ford standard transmissions. We learned years ago that the original Ford fasteners...
Janius……you might get better advice on this question if you can tell us more. You might possibly get bad advice if everyone misunderstands your...
The 49-53 flywheel bolt holes for the pressure plate were drilled all the way through the flywheel….you can easily see the holes from both sides....
Check out the upper portion of the coil…..the domed part. If you see any cracks whatsoever, that particular coil is toast and has no core value....
I built my first version in the mid 1960’s by myself. I had already built many models….mostly 1/24 scale, so I wasn’t a novice. However, by the...
Looks like something got caught in the gear teeth of the main drive gear….the image shows some heavy damage to the gear teeth. There may also be...
The Henry Ford Museum could possibly be toured in one day…..assuming you didn’t stop and look for long at anything. I suppose it would be a good...
To address the question of the condition of this freewheel cam, the photos of the two parts show two things. The inner hub appears to be in pretty...
Try to keep the freewheel cam assembly together as you separate it and handle it. Although it’s more difficult to clean when assembled, it can be...
At the moment we probably have 3-4 nice good used planetary gears in stock, and plenty of nice used sun gears. It’s impossible to tell from the...
The simple answer is…..almost certainly not. The transmission in the photo is from the 1953-62 variety as used in the F-100 pickups. It is Ford’s...
Don’t forget the Packard museum in Dayton, Ohio. It’s in an original old Packard dealership building, so the dealer showroom and the service area...
I want to stock wire bullet connectors for some of the vintage Ford applications we deal in. The original bullet connectors were crimped to the...
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