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Had a good friend that owned a couple of the winged wonders but both were 440 cars. After all of the factory body mods it was just kind of a...
That's about what mine looks like ! I say tooling also... ....
I prefer dot 4, any moisture is absorbed by the fluid, dot 5 the moisture pools together and can create a rust area where it pools. Dot 5 has...
Yep, a lot of Pontiac cams are nothing more than Chevy copies. At one time crane made a really good cam for Pontiacs, worked good with an auto...
Nice work, I'd be too afraid too ! I can see though were the loss of the weight would be a great advantage when doing long passes. ..
@19Eddy30 thank you for the numbers, I was looking for that number awhile back for another friend of mine. @Algoma56 please if you find them...
@BJR haha !! Damn right !! There went her diamond tennis bracelet !! Now she's getting a McDonald's happy meal gift card !! ...
@CSPIDY super bell axle, standard .812 ford kingpin. @RodStRace I've found some online, was hoping someone had a Napa number, this way I could...
Finally after all of these years I've got the front end painted and assembling it together but now I have a problem... I've built everything,...
You will have to measure the diameter of the end of the bung. IT will decide wall thickness... ...
My days in the shop best described this way.. [ATTACH]
Dang @HOTRODPRIMER ! The creature from the black lagoon on the magazine cover on the first shelf, man o man did that thing give me nightmares for...
I've seen them from .156 to over .2 Depends on who makes them and how they mount the heim joints. If they have welded bungs then around the...
Thanks guys for the suggestions !! @RodStRace that's one of my concerns is being able to occasionally checking torque and scratching up the...
I agree, worn tooling... ...
OK, ready to assemble my painted front suspension, 4-bar, on my fenderless 31 Tudor. Can't decide on what style bolts to use. Want to find...
One thing I still do after all these years after having been weened on vinyl and 8-tracks. I remember when some songs would lead straight into...
I bought one about 8 months ago straight from them, although it's not chromed, it also has offset kingpin holes. Not near to the extent of the...
I fall under the see it and build it tool section. Home built tubing bender (that works awesome), tubing notcher, shrinker/stretcher foot pedal...
When in doubt, bore it out. No substitute for cubic inches... etc... 383 without any hesitation, more torque, more horsepower, lower rpms to...
Hot tank is my preferred method, like the idea of super hot water and cleaners doing their thing throughout the entire block... ....
@Ebbsspeed it's all good !!! I'm always telling the wife to read the fine print, but she doesn't, she just received a small rice cooker she's...
Math is fine, jack stands are rated as a pair, so that works out to roughly 3300 per stand or 3 ton per pair. He tested 1 stand and it failed...
Same here, bicycle cables, and you can find different parts, ends and brackets for them. ...
I would buy cheap broken Mac trade-in tools from snap-on then have the Mac guy warranty them. Then do the same from Mac guy, buy broken snap-on...
I went out to HF and bought one of their cheap battery powered 4-1/2" disc grinders to go along with my corded HF disc grinders so i could go...
They have a wrench shoot out video on YouTube that's interesting. They bought a couple different makes of wrenches from Home Depot, a snap-on...
I just picked up 2 sets of their 3 ton Jack stands last night. It was the last day for them at 34.99 a set. Watched a video the other day where...
Doesn't look adequate to me. Looks like lower is multiple belt, if so I'd run a double water pump pulley and just run one of the belts between...
I know this is a WTF moment but one of my favorite ZZ top songs is "t.v. dinners". I like the slow beat, the guitar, and I can relate to when I...
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