Dane Valatka I am an engineer for the Air Force by day, and general car lover all other times. My wife allows me alot of room for my car projects as long as it doesn't interfere with doing the dishes, mowing, or our weekly dates, so I'm pretty lucky in that respect. Started working on cars out of neccesity in my teenage years. Parents car was always breaking down, and it seemed I had the knack. It all started with a starter, and pretty soon I was elbows deep in car innards. Put my self through college fixing cars and making illegal booze and beer. I own Fords. Lots of them. In fact every single Ford I now own was truly Found On Road Dead. The running collection includes a 72 Linc MkIII, 69 F250, a 68 Galaxie Fastback. a 66 LTD Q Code, a 66 Galaxie Convertible, a 62 F250. None of these cars ran when I first got them. Projects in the working are a 66 F250 4x4, a 67 Galaxie drag racer, an original playboy pink 67 Mustang Convert. 65 Galaxie A/FX sorta-clone, a 40 Ford Coupe a 31 super chopped A, I have about 20 or more still dead'rs. I had so many I figured I should get them all gathered and organised and now I have Ford Auto Wrecking. www.FordAutoWrecking,com . I plan on posting a number of cars and parts from prewar era, 39-40 and 50-60's Stuff in the for sale section. And I'll put in a post for my yard and various services an work I can do on cars on the services HAMB o'dex Forum.. Thanks Dane V danev2@yahoo.com
Welcome to the boards man! BTW, your address to the site has a slight error... you have a comma instead of period. http://www.fordautowrecking.com/ There goes it guys. Cool site!
Oh and a question for you since you sell parts... I have a 1969 351W motor and I need single groove pulley for the water pump. Right now I have the pulleys for a power steering setup but I don't run the power steering and so the water pump pulley doesn't line up with the alternator. The alt sticks out an inch or so more than the water pump but the alt lines up with the crank pulley. If you may have this part then please let me know and let me know a price, etc. I hear that 69 pullies (sp) are different than 70 and up 351's so if that makes a difference.... Thanks a lot!
The 69 pulleys are different than 70's. The problem is that the motor pulley system was designed to run with a PS pump. I have a couple 69 engines, but I don't recall them having all they're pulleys with them. I would try using a 60's Ford FE water pump pulley. the truck units have a double groove. and ran crank, water pump, alternator. Thanks all for welcoming me Dane V
I know SLC is a big, but have you ever had a chance to meet this guy? www.chevyasylum.com Mostly non-blue ovals but I've been meaning to shoot him an email to see if he knew about H.A.M.B. or not...
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