The Jalopy Journal
i had a drop in conversion kit once by bosch,back when hei ignition was expensive and new. important thing to remember is some cars (any with a...
greeting from australia ! yep we love them too ! local muscle cars that we used to buy for a weekend of thrashing are now worth a years pay for a...
one more thing to check..go buy a compression tester (they are cheap and it would have saved you a carb rebuild and a dizzy over haul !) perform...
good luck on your next adventure ! the day i quit (as a mechanic ) i got a real send off ! the boss ran wild firing a rifle....three of us left...
wow i have the same fans, a beer keg and a 40 chev pickup deal in the works ( its a long slow process but it will be cheap !) been thinking...
i have a really large collection of easy out type devices and the best thing i have learned to do is throw them out if you stress them ! any that...
a song ! very creative but not really what we look at hamb for ..... we put v 8 in toyota pickups all the time,they are pretty tough. i used to...
rang the spring co today and i have done the right thing .the slightly higher rate is for the drivers side (wherever you may be ) interesting to...
till i got my spring compressor id sit a few friends on the bonnet and twitch her up with wire ( a lot of wire ). its a bit of a bomb waiting to...
any one know what was the white car the brother is driving in the opening scenes ? ive had a thing for old white cars ever since !
hi try looking on the top deck of the block (where the head gasket goes) dumb place for an engine no i know.right front or left rear
very cool .much respect for just doing it and being willing to fix mistakes and learn stuff rather than playing safe and doing nothing..... or...
as a mate says "if i didnt have to work i would have a sarong and a spear so every thing else is a tax deduction " pretty much the only reason i...
hi fitting a new set of front springs (slightly used ,no instructions) and noticed a bit too late that they are marked left and right. no prob to...
yeah california kid changed my life ! and i knew as i was watching it that something really important was happening. finally got a tape of it a...
hi we just did up a couple for a pair of trucks to be used in a movie ,only a few guys here still do the bottom ends so that wasnt cheap.and we...
my boss is gonna love that site ! thanks guys !
hi i have just spent the last three days digging out the oil pump on a 4 cyl flat head international it was alloy and had grown over time ...........
thanks guys .
a friend had his car stolen and three months later the cops ring to say they have found it.we go to pick it up armed with a new batt fuel etc. all...
its from the us ,california i think. been off the boat about a year and a half (most of that under the house !) im happy to accept they got lazy...
thanks for the reply but negative ,the vehicle id is easy to find,last six digits being the engine no . some where on the block this should be...
hi ,getting one of my cars on the road and spent over an hour at the inspection station searching for the engine no ! its a bit new for here i...
nah gold if it wasnt night time here id go out and check my tune right now! timing lights are over rated since they took all the lead out of the...
usually its an "angle thing" the back of the car should be higher than the front i did spend a day trying to find what went wrong an a mates...
hi again thats the v8 with the alloy block not the huge six in the p76 isnt it ? pop ! foot removed from mouth stick the holley on and keep your...
yeah got one it still does it on hot days .the cheapass one i bought actually contributed .its a vapour thing surely it'll run out soon
hi been thinking about this all day..what you are planning takes a low tech (sorry) motor and turns it into "sports tune "such as an alfa romeo...
hi hmmm i thought we were bedding in the cam bearings not the lobes never had much luck with regrinds or re faced lifters but i know with team...
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