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see, talking about this right now has me all excited. has me motivated. but i have college until May, that's when the semester is DONE, and i...
I really do like all this feedback and the ideas and suggestions so far. especially the sitting in the drivers seat and making a vroom vroom...
you guys, sorry to bump an old post of mine, but man... i need some motivation again. i'm now 23, college 4 days a week, part time job, and you...
i.... i am in love. oh my
guys sorry i hadnt been on here so long. i decided NOT to sell it. ill never get rid of this car. my late grandpa got it for me and no matter...
today i was going to head over to my grandmas for the first time since january. i felt an urge to work on it. i was going to take a 2 hour trip...
let me first say thanks everyone so far for all the support. i have not been on this website for about 4 months up until yesterday. when i told...
absolutley love what you just said right here. love love love it. me, a girl, cruising around on a friday night. aw, love that image....
my motivation level went down the hill back in january. I could not for the life of me get those springs in. spent so much money on a few coil...
i dont think my heart can allow me to sell this. i had it up for a while now, but no luck selling it. its off the market for now, but i have no...
well i should probably update that i got the bottom arm of that coil compressor out. i hammered it out and now the one arm at the top of the coil...
i should probably update this thread guys. i got the coil in there without using an impact gun or anything. i did however cut a coil and a half...
actually i printed out all the suspension pages before i took the coils out, thanks though for the reference. but guess what, i successfully...
this is probably a silly question, but what is a coil over front end? is it something i should look into if i cant get these coils in there?...
i dont necessarily want the gasser look, i just want to have clearance in the front end so my headers aren't slamming over speed bumps when i...
here are the photos i took. the idea of taking it to a shop is sticking in my head quite well actually. i'd appreciate any feedback as to...
there's a lot of good replies to this thread and i'll try to answer what i remembered seeing: as for the reference to the "10 inch springs came...
trust me im trying to find ways around using the gun lol, i was scared trying to take the coil out of my '58 yesterday afraid it'd slip out even...
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=570974&page=14 thats the link to the build thread of mine but i did some searching around on...
silly question to be asking, but would it be too dangerous to compress this new coil with an impact wrench? i remembered i put it in my '58 when...
success!!! i got ONE spring out, on the passenger side. and i tried putting the new one in... holy god it's damn near impossible i think. i...
damn that looks nice with the wide whites, cant wait to see what you do with it. and to 58_Ford i bought my coils off of rockauto, they were 17...
my '58 ford has the steelies that looks exactly like this. im no expert but it could be 57-59 ford fairlane wheels.
that was the one i used. there were different kinds of coil spring compressors i tried, but this was one of them. thing was, the rod kept...
notice i do have it pretty wrapped up with the chains in case anyone was nervous about me picking away at it with that pickle fork lol. but i was...
the video isnt loading on my computer so if you guys dont see it let me know
well as odd as this is going to sound, i went over there today hammering away again, and 20 minutes into it i stopped and said, "god if my grandpa...
[IMG] .. to be 100 percent honest with you, i kind of dont understand how this works lol. right now im using a pretty big hammer to be honest!...
i spent a good two hours whacking at that. with the fork, and without the fork. trying every possible way to get it to budge. sprayed PB...
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xrL5lgkgZic" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> hopefully this video...
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