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In CA smog check for 1976 and newer. If you do an engine swap on 76 and newer smog check has to be to the engine. 1975 and older. Who cares? Don’t...
In-n-Burger is a company has no franchise stores. Starts is employees at $15.00. Never saw a pissed off employee or one with an attitude at an...
I’m going to be a smart ass. How are you going to build a race car if you can’t fix this one?
On my ‘46 Ford coupe with a 283, I used an early ‘70 smog pump bracket, it mounts the old style external regulator alternator up high on the...
Check with John at Big M Auto in Williams,CA. An hour north of Sac on I-5.
1982 on CA 101 just south of SLO. Driving my ‘46 coupe. Coming back from a run to Reno. CHP pulls me over. Ask me do you know why I pulled you...
Depending on what the shop charges per hour. Shops here in sunny Calif. charge $125-up per man hour. So figure about $600 for parts if the wiring...
Bump
Who’s going to the Dry Lakes Hall of Fame, Gas Up in Buellton, CA on May 4?
Sounds like a dead battery
I have a Ford Galaxie T-10 with a BW R-12 overdrive on it. It was developed by an old hot rodder named Tom Beatty for another old hot rodder named...
I had a pair of ‘51 CA commercial plates restored by MoJo Art Works. $80 per plate. Totally happy with them. He also did a couple of small repairs...
My 46 Ford coupe has the original trans with an old Cragar adapter to the 283. I used a 49-50 Merc pressure plate and disc. Also the release...
A amp meter in a Ford back in the 40’s was an induction meter meaning no current flowed through the meter. Worked on magnetism. In fact all 6 volt...
Can’t use studs for alignment on a Ford FE. But before you tighten the manifold down install the distributor to align the manifold with the block...
FelPro. Throw the cork end gaskets away. Use The Right Stuff silicon. 1/4” bead. Check out Edelbrock’s web site instructions for FE manifold install.
Get a Dennis Carpenter Galaxie catalog. There is an article in the back that I wrote for the FGCoA how to repair the vent windows.
My 57 Ranchero with dual quad 312 ran until it had118,000 miles on it and was still oiling the rockers. I used good detergent oil and changed it...
Can’t give you a measurement right. I’m out of town. But if you are talking about a passenger car it is the same all the way up to 1964. Same bolt...
Yup, pictures please.
Falcon and Comet same.
Also some Ford t-10’s came with both bolt patterns on the main case.
55 years ago I was just drafted in the Army. Already a hot rodder. Had to sell my gas station. Only been in it a little over a year. Had a 51...
I remember Mel Burns Ford and Norman Ford (in Pomona, I have a license plate frame). Did business with Les Ritchey in the early 60’s. Les was...
I bought a t-85 overdrive transmission (what a t-10 was designed from) that was bolted to a small block 6 bolt bellhousing. Someone made an...
John Mummit in El Cajon
The instructions say to used a T-Bird cover, but truck is the same.
390 and 410 rods are the same. You need the 410-428 balancer and flywheel. 410-428’s are external balanced and 390’s internal balanced. Some Ford...
Foot operated siren?
Bars leak is your friend.
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