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What are the odds that thing's even any good? I don't know anything about tachs. This will probably be my first car with working gauges. :D
He was very specific about his father casting the pistons himself and punching the block out to its limits. He was definitely talking about the...
[ATTACH] On its way to the shop... the adventure begins.
Okay... so as the story goes, his dad started building the car in the early 50s and raced it into the early 60s until it got replaced by an Anglia...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Still sporting its hand painted...
Woke up this morning & had to make sure yesterday wasn't some stupid dream... :rolleyes: We are loading the car on a rollback later. Since the...
In all the excitement yesterday I forgot to post an update on the truck. [ATTACH] I've decided this will end up getting re-done now that I have...
I don't know if it broke in use or not. I feel like this car got robbed for the '32 shell that was probably on it & its drivetrain and the rear...
[ATTACH] Here's the only other picture I got, looking at the rear end from the side. Wonder if anyone can tell anything interesting from the pic?
So-- what's here, and what to do with it? Aside from the broad conservation and repair work to what is already there... I'm missing some important...
How much would you pay for a real-deal, built-in-the-50s rod? A buddy of mine called today while I was at work. He works for a wrecker and drives...
I need to come back and countersink the boards so those hex nuts will sit down better, but we couldn't find a spade bit (thought we had one) and...
Still no real headway with the alternator. The dude got sick and has been out for the whole month so waiting on that. I have exhausted everything...
I can tell you if that car was in my driveway I'd be too busy driving it to worry about what to change about it.
I'm confident the alternator is spinning good. It's set up for a Model A and has a very small pulley.
Love the alt HAMB logo. Finally got a round of shirts and stuff. I want the hat with that logo...
Been a real busy week or so and I've been super sick for most of it but we had a minute today to swap the steering over. Feels great to have a...
I went with it because it was available and tied straight into the stock A wire harness... not because of any street rod mumbo jumbo. I have 3...
On the contrary... I learned I can take it apart and put it back together no problem. I was never gonna send it back, it was going to a local auto...
I took this picture before I dug further into it, for reference when I went to put it back together. [ATTACH] It looks like a dirt dauber got...
2 reasons... 1- the truck isn't done but it's done enough that it's in active use. I can drive it with a dead alternator, I can't drive it with no...
Not in this case, but that answers a question I had about reassembling this thing.
Right you are. I'm meaning the internal regulator- this guy: [ATTACH]
Yes sir. That was my first thought. The unit has a label on the outside identifying it as a 12v model.
We are gonna use this truck around the shop, for parts runs, local service calls, etc. with our business name on it, so I intend to run an air...
I should probably have prefaced this post by saying I don't know jack about alternators... I am pretty good at the physical, mechanical stuff but...
Hey yall, quick question... got a brand new one wire on my Model A. Wired in correctly... there's only one way to do that, so, yeah... Battery...
Big power is exciting when I'm around it in person but I can't afford to be a player in that scene. It's pretty much all greek to me. I don't pay...
The spot where we were dicking with the truck when the wheel broke was really inconvenient and I didn't want to wait a week to drive it again, so...
It's cracked all the way around the middle where the levers come out in front of the firewall. I just picked the shaft up from the machine shop. I...
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