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We used a S10 rearend on our 31 roadster. With the wheel support ring and the spacers you will need , It ended up just right with 35 wires.
I put some STP in all of mine. You can tell the difference in how easy it steers.
I alway's put some STP in my vega box's. It makes a lot of difference.
I painted my roadster with it. First job and last with it. Spilled a little gas on it a couple of months later and it washed the paint right off....
I ran my 33 threewindow down the drag strip on my 84th birthday A couple of times.
I turned 84 last July . Just finished A 31 flathead roadster . Currently building A 57 427 big block chevy pickup, Out in the shop everyday. Been...
I have sealed beams behind my 36 lens. Been that way for thirty years, can see plenty good. No problem.
It depends on the angle of your shackles, If they hang at 45 degree you want need a sway bar, But if they hang stright down you will get side...
It;s the fan hooked through the ignition. Mine does that unless I turn the fan off first, then it dies instantly.
I drove my 51 merc back from the stray cat 500 at 70 to 75 miles an hour with the air on all the way. It's got a 350 350 with 273 gears. I got...
IF a top hose is longer than it needs to be then it's too long.
I narrowed a 57 ford housing to use mavrick axels. No problem, The bearing and seal fit fine . The marvick splines fit the nine inch center...
The rear spears on A fordoor are two peice. A upper piece and A lower piece below the door.
I have done all of my cars for the last thirty years. Do all my paint and bodywork work, frame and engine work also. I don't hire anything done...
I have shortened several of them. I just take a stock one and go back behind the hole to leave enough meat and drill a new hole. I taper it from...
There are balance weights on the drum right where the 35 wheels hit the drum. You have to use spacers or they will lock up when you tighten them down.
I built this trailer in the early 1970's out of scrap metal at a cost of $35. This picture is from last Saturday dragging home some tin from a...
90 % of carb problems is ignition 90 % of ignition problems is condenser.
I've got ten finished cars licenced and insured. A big block 31 ford on a 32 frame, A33 threewindow coupe with a big block chevy highboy, A 34...
sounds like a bad condenser. first thing I always check
small block chevy exhast valves will fit right in a 8ba flathead engine. just recently replaced mine with chevy valves. the chevy exhast will will...
I put them on my 51 merc on 15 inch chevy wheels, but it takes a lot of work. nothing alike
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John Steinbeck first proclaimed rte 66 the mother road in his 1939 book The Grapes Of wrath
I grew up two blocks from highway 66 in springfield mo back in the thirties, forties, fifties, sixties. Highway 66 then was just a two lane...
I split the pulley on a chevy alt and put a spacer between the two halves for a wider belt on my flathead. Seems to work just fine.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Here are pictures of my three 36's.
I ran my 49 ford on halfday dragstrip in 1952. I was eighteen at the time . Had a chopped 34 five window highboy in 1954. Bought my first 32...
Got a tunnel ram on my A coupe with a 468 big block chevy. Had two 600 hollys, never could get it to run right. I put two AFB Carters on it. Hard...
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