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[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] ....and I build WW-II model planes, too.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92382895@N07/9174570821/in/album-72157634380689503/ [ATTACH] been working on this in my basement for 28 years or...
Me too. Lack of oil is exactly why the push rod end gets destroyed. The point worn onto the end of the pushrod when a rev kit spring breaks...
#8 intake rev kit spring is broken. #6 is still intact. The spring lifts the rocker up off the valve stem and tensions the rest of the valve...
The Milodon rev kit puts the clearance it the junction of the rocker arm and the valve stem where it belongs. When the clearance occurs at the...
The only reason you'd want to run a Milodon style rev kit is if you were running a solid lifter cam as the Milodon-style kit keeps tension on the...
The first time the '34 was in Louisville was for the first of the NSRA events there. 1988, I think. Been to every Nats in Louisville. It's been...
One of those scooters smacked into a display car inside the building just before the owner arrived at the booth to view his newly-completed car.
My point wasn't that the sun doesn't have an effect on the paint, plastic and rubber. The point was that a tent at a car show simply to preserve...
10,190 announced at the give-away, not 10,600
That's not, in my opinion, a legitimate argument i.e. sitting in the sun for a few days. My '34 has a lacquer paint job and, if anything, that...
As for no tent, I was out there all day Friday with shorts, black t-shirt and sneakers and no sunburn BUT I had sunscreen on any exposed skin. I...
I don't have an issue with E-Z Up tents, it's the high dollar rental tents that take up most of the space in the west lot that I take issue with....
To start with, I refuse to photograph ANY car under a tent. I don't care how much money the owner has wasted buying or building it. The tents...
High resolution pictures are up. https://www.flickr.com/photos/92382895@N07/albums/72157700009529585
The last two who've made all of the MoPar Country events with the same vehicle.
Oh yea, me 'n Dennis should have our '34's parked side by side in Mopar Country again on Saturday. We're the last two who've made 'em all. The...
Almost finished packing. Leaving tomorrow morning (28 July). Making a couple of stops along the way. 1000 miles later I should be at the Crowne...
The ducks were Fred Steele's doing and the ducks were in the bathtub, not the pool. I towed the broken down Henway with Norm & Sandy off I-91 in...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92382895@N07/8697531143/in/album-72157633393345158/ Just one of Bob's 5000 soft shaft oil pumps (Melling requires a...
Dennis's wife Sue passed away on Sunday, 11 Feb 2018 She was the office manager at O'Brien Truckers for 40-something years. She has been in poor...
St Paul. BTW, anyone recognize the guy leaning against the Henway? We'd just parked after having cruised the fairgrounds when I shot the pic.
Here's some more '74 stuff [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Had these on the engine since '95. Take 'em off a couple of times a year to check the valve clearance (mechanical roller cam) and put 'em right...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Yup, I was on 'em all. Did the one from Regina, too. I'll hafta dig out the CaNats slide...
[ATTACH] July 1966 [ATTACH] September 2013
[ATTACH] Hot heads oil pump with 37,000 miles on it. Note the wear on the non-hardened shaft. Nothing to do w/ alignment, it simply isn't...
Whatever your choice, if you use a 340 high volume pump, make sure the intermediate shaft and driven shaft in the pump are hardened. As far as I...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] hemi-powered '34 Ford sedan (been driving it since '64), '48 Chrysler (got that in...
Another customer of mine had a re-ground hydraulic cam in his hemi but he stayed with stock, non-adjustable, pushrods. Some of the pushrod ends...
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