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Here you go--chev v8 in .iges format. Its too early to run my lathe or mill, wife is still sleeping, so I done this up as an iges file. there may...
I just spoke to Jeff and his wife at home. They are both doing well. His wifes legs are quite painfull, but the doc told her she would be mostly...
BottleBob---I just read your story ---the very beginning of this thread. It is an excellent story. I did my street racing in the mid 1960's around...
Based on my experience, there are far more stock, and semi hotrodded cars setting in urban home garages than there are out in the boonies. I will...
Okay Guys----So here's the rest of the story. It turns out that whatever was wrong with my speedometer was not fixable. Autometer GAVE me a brand...
Amazing work. I am impressed.---Brian
Your timing chain has jumped a tooth on the timing gears. Not an unusuual thing to have happen.
If you have a good parts store, they will have a shock absorber interchange book which gives the maximum and minimum shock lengths, Type of end,...
Hi Don---Nice to hear from you. I don't post much on any of the hotrod forums now. I am still driving the Wild Canary on a daily basis thru the...
Terry----Its been a few years, and now I am running an aftermarket dropped light bar. The original light bar I used was for a 28/29 with a 28/29...
Without getting into a lot of geometry and physics, ---The reason the brackets you have shown are shaped that way is so that the top of the...
No, thats not a good idea. When you accelerate, the tires try to turn foreward. This makes the axle tube want to rotate in the opposite direction....
Don't confuse what is "perfect" with "what will work". I have built rods exactly as you are describing, and they worked okay. I didn't use Heim...
Mike---What you have there will work okay. Its not "ideal" but there will be enough chassis flex to make it somewhat forgiving, and with the...
I haven't posted on here too much since I finished the Wild Canary roadster pickup 8 years ago. Every once in a while I will add something to my...
Shockley---For a comfortable riding car, 4" clearance for rear axle travel is essential, and sometimes you are still going to bottom out. I wish...
Ken--My tires are Coker Classics, purchased 7 or 8 years ago. They are Radials. They cost $1019.00 shipped to my door. (Cokers Canadian dealer is...
Well said, Rfraze. Sounds like you and I run parallel histories. I enjoyed your post.----Brian
Emery asks the following:I read your post with great admiratiion and will be using this information building my t. As you said the front axle...
Today I had a question out of Redlands, California :Hi. Mike McCurdy from Redlands, CA. You seem very knowledgeable on early Ford suspensions and...
Lauren---ONYA kid!!! You've done great. Its been a long time coming. Have fun!!!---Brian
Ask me again about the end of January, when there's three foot of snow here and colder than a witches tit!!! I might be pretty easy to convince...
It shouldn't be, long as you are going fenderless. If you get hung up, call me---I'm just down the road from you, in Barrie.---Brian
More chassis building poop---This came to me as an email from someone asking about death wobble and how to establish the centerline of their...
That rpu is probably one of the nicest hotrods I have built, in fourty some years of hotrod building. It is my daily driver during the summer...
I don't post much on here anymore, mainly because I don't have a whole lot to add. I built my roadster pickup, the "Wild Canary" seven years ago,...
My experience has been that if you want to maintain a 6 degree negative caster, the ends of the split bones will be so far away from the bottom of...
Happy birthday Jeff!!---I saw your truck at the Burger King last night in Barrie, but couldn't find you to say Hi.---Brian
Yes, 3" diameter will work fine. I wouldn't go any less than a 3/16" wall. as far as a drawing, there are too many variables for a generic...
Again, you are dealing with the uncertainty of just how much your spring is going to compress between "free" state and after the full weight of...
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