The Jalopy Journal
Haven’t been on here in years, life got in the way. Nice car! Hopping up a 49 Dodge B1b-108 (1/2 ton truck). Gave up fighting the stock 4.78:1...
Have 4 sets of wheels for the 49 Dodge truck project. 1) Factory issue 16” with factory caps, both blackwall and wide whites in 6.00-16 in the...
Any tractor trailer oil will do. We use them in wet clutch OHV motorcycles too. I’m at 41k miles on an engine designed to grenade by 25k...
Still can’t stand 4 doors. A local shop had a “Ranchero” that started off as a 4 door 49-51 Mercury. Walked away from it, and they only wanted...
Supplemental income only. Upholstery, woodwork, body/paint. Make a lot of motorcycle luggage and fringed “foo foo”. Doing a bent hardwood strip...
Most of the neighbors, shall we say, “dislike” me. Until bad weather comes. Then they can “forgive” the “old eyesore” trucks, especially the 4wd...
So YOU built my Sweptline? Roof flashing, angle iron and 2x4 chunks wood screwed to the inside rocker panel. Coated with cold patch. Bench seat...
We inherited so much crap that we’ll never use... Ford AA truck doors and seat base. Standard body VW Beetle replacement panels. Flathead 4...
My OT daily C10 is a “hot trend” truck right now. I keep getting flak from the local club because I’m “screwing up” a one year only 2 tone style....
I have an older one that I use as back up lighting for my OT 4wd. Oval lens, takes 2 H3 style bulbs. I “think” he used it in the 1946 ChrisCraft...
Good to know... wish I could find a glass shop that can make HUGE curved windshield sections. Vintage RV, takes a bus windshield. Bus was obsolete...
And my wife wonders why I have 7 trucks, a couple motorcycles, and the car is rotting away in the barn... 6’2” 245 bone and disc sections removed...
I use a LOT of hydraulic fluid. And not just in the tractors. Power steering? Check. Manual steering gear box? Check, but 1/2 is prefilled...
You should see the one in the garage... headlight in a bracket, with a long cord and a lighter plug. 6 volt no less. Father in law told me a few...
Now, that barn hinge gas pedal looks familiar... mine will have a cover though... stock one fell apart about 24 years ago. Replacement did not...
[ATTACH] I’d have to say this entire car... S10 chassis, 350/350, generic gauges in a piece hacked out of an old sign... he’s a friend of mine....
Spent the morning taking a friend in for cardiac MRI. OT truck burned a full quart of oil in 80 mile round trip. Measured for my hodge podge...
Hmm... if he gets/got stuck... look for the flamed purple 40 out of Roy. Has if I remember correctly a 327 in it. Little white haired lady with...
Four cylinder Ranger parts work fine. If you are staying L6 you can even use the 5spd and 7.5” Ranger rear axle.
That is cool as all get out. Now I miss my 68 Catalina... I knew lace wasn’t just a “lowrider” thing... can now prove some local naysayers...
Not knocking them. Anything is better than the stock 48-52 rear fenders. Mine is getting a 57 Fury 230 L6, 5spd and rear end out of a Ranger, and...
Had bypass filters on the 218 and 230 Plymouth engines. Sold one, the other has gone missing. They worked fine. Preferred the one with copper hard...
Daily driver is an OT. Squarebody C10, being resprayed Cool Mint (Seafoam Green) and Antique White (same as old Mopar Chilean Beige/Desert Sand)....
Mar-k used to have high side bed parts? Same exact bed 53-85... same cab 48-56... Bruce Horkey has nice glass fenders. I want a set of 39-47...
Easiest swap out there... XJ Cherokee just needs new perches. Depending on your wheel choice you might need spacers. My 49 B1b-108 is getting the...
Ummm... yeah. Uncle gave me a truly junk 32 Vickie when I was 10. I’m 46. Car has no glass, no paint and a 60 year old apple crate bolted to the...
So far so good on disc wheels from the 40s through the mid double aughts. Exact same machine does our wire motorcycle wheels. And riding mower...
Always preferred flathead engines. Won’t own an OHV Harley. Listen to single side 78rpm records, which stopped production around 1918. On 1926...
Nice find. When I was a kid there was a cherry orchard in Natchez with several TT and AA trucks, an old Seagrave fire pumper and a 32 Chevy coupe...
Try building/driving a flathead 6. Not one automotive machine shop in my area will touch them. “If we mess up your block we can’t replace it” is...
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