The Jalopy Journal
Absolute yes. Looks awesome.
More updates. J & D Plating in St Paul, MN is worthless, 7 months and my grille never got chromed. Just lots of excuses, but on the plus side, I...
Yeah, probably, I didn't have the right drill bits in my tool chest and I'm in a hurry to get it on the road so I just threw my old bumper back on...
Slow to update but I have been doing so many hours in the garage. Moser axle came in, got that installed. Looking good as ever. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
So I heard from my chrome plater that our year chieftains are the worst chrome on most cars because of the korean war and the nickel shortage....
Not a lot going on besides collecting parts for rebuild at the time. Cold weather is just lingering in MN so I've been out of the garage. Couple...
In the process of removing my rear axle now. I was going to get my axle rebuilt to 3.55 gearing from the 2.73 currently in there to better...
Thanks Phil, no worries, I know you had a hell of a year.
Out with the old, in with the new. Just in time too. The guy who took the old tired unknown motor said he pulled off the timing cover and the...
Yep, that's exactly the setup I'm using. I think I just had to hand bend the rod a hair to get it place nicely and it's been working well on the...
Motor and tran are out! Trans is a TH350 and I already dropped it off at a local shop for a full rebuild kit with a Mild Shift Kit install. $1200...
Here are the issues with my grille. Apparently it was rechromed at one point and must have been all rusted before because whoever did it didn’t...
$2300 for the grille. It breaks down into 10 pieces. My larger pieces have potting and need copper fill after the nickel plating to get it smooth....
Oh nice, thanks, I hadn’t heard of that. I’ll likely respond with that after seeing the quote hAha. I’ll post what they want for 2 bumpers and...
And the motor pull begins. Front and rear main seals leaking, compression low on passenger side. Trans leaking. Gonna pull and rebuild from stock...
Yeah thanks man. You called it long ago. I didn’t wanna have to change out that directional switch but that was the case. Thanks for the insight!
Took a little break on the Chieftain work this fall to work on other projects. I was also getting pretty down on the car and the electrical issue...
Hey Bruce, Vintage air has a heater you can install under dash and has defrost ports on them. Likely, under your dash you still have the ports to...
Thank you so much for giving me more ammunition to track this down. Checking into this over the weekend. Appreciate it.
No LEDs in the car except the third brake light, but I disconnected that just to be sure and it had the same issue. I unscrewed my tail light...
Need your help HAMBers. When I push my brake pedal, my turn signal indicators light up on my dash and the parking lamps (front turn signals)...
I can second that. Not to mention the feeling of “that’s done” and move on.
Carpet install was ok. I am not super happy with the fit. The tunnel has excess that is kind of floppy and where I bolted down the gas pedal it...
Turning the gain down on the amp along with the additional body ground eliminated any feedback. I loomed all the wires and removed the audio...
I was having high frequency feed back on my speakers and I cleaned up and tried multiple grounds with the amp. I added a ground from the block to...
So I noticed about a month ago my 4" driveshaft was rubbing in my X-frame. It kind of has these flared I-beams that it was hitting. Fairly certain...
So it was "Back to The Fifties" in MN this past weekend. Maybe some of you have heard of it, maybe not. There were over 10,000 registered cars...
HA! I tried that at the DMV with the lady, she didn't even respond. Problem is, they have to inspect the plates for quality before use and after...
So that sucks. Why MN why!? Guess I’ll just have to some silly vanity collector plates next year. Here are my ideas so far ha. Has to be 7...
Wiring is well under way. Got to the point where I had to cut some holes for the 6x9s. I figured I'd wire everything and test it before I...
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