The Jalopy Journal
Update! Well its been some time, all this lock down has things closed and buggered up so progress on the Star Chief is slow. Ive dropped off the...
That is as awesome project!! Discipline is just earned like scars and cussing at nuts and bolts hehe, you have an awesome start. Wagons are...
Man looks like my 'Star Chief' is a slightly different font, dag gum...oh well.
Update Hails Jalopnics, with all this shut-in and close down due to this Corona plague, Ive got little happening. The transmission and driveline...
Hails all! The transmission rebuild is done. I don't have pics of that since it was in Stans hands, a saint who is as old as god and been...
Update Leap year! Well I have some news on the transmission. Sure the car has only 42k miles on it but according to Stan, who is retired and...
Oh and this Friday, the Chief will be heading down to Mad Max Cars in Puyallup to have the transmission pulled and sent off to a retired...
Hails fellow car tinkerers. Its January now and I figured I'd post something even though the Chief here is in hibernation until the rain stops...
Its December and the holidays are upon all of us! I've been meaning to get this out there, this is the work on teh weather stripping for the...
OOooo that would be awesome! Heres to hoping you have one =) Cheers!
Update The old Chieftain now has some tires! In January the Chief will visit Mad Max Cars in Puyallup for a transmission removal, overhaul, and...
Update Hails all, a bit of work on the old Chief, a wiper motor fix, some new vacuum hoses, fit all of it onto a new episode of the Resurrection...
Update Before I took the trip to get new tires, the rain was threatening so it was time to work on the wipers on the old Chief. The wipers are...
Update New spin balloons for the Chief! The folks at Discount Tires gave me a great deal, good price, and were nice enough to let me film and...
Update Before I get more miles on the Chief and his sketchy transmission, I need new circle/spin balloons (Tires). 20191130_tires_outside Before...
Update Thanksgiving has seen some progress on the old Chief, hard to do with below freezing temps and icy rain. Sent the old dead clock off to...
Update This update is not the Chief per-say, its some video content that I have related to fixing a tie rod end on my wifes 66 Mustang. I know...
Happy November, Winter, Holidays, fun! And some Knish! 20191109_180907.knish by Bishop Schulz posted Nov 10, 2019 at 11:50 AM
Update Small setback for the 66 Mustang, I mention it here as it impacts my work on the 55 Chief...a modern part failed on the mustang, a ball...
Update Worked on a wiring diagram, something clear and easy to read and with some colors to help me out too. This is the original one from the...
Update Replacing bits of the rubber on the vacuum system, needed to take notes as this survivor still has all the necessary routing in place,...
Hails @Jim Lato Not sure if you ever got resolution on this, i've needed something like it too...so I used my own original survivor to trace out...
Update Started in on the intake manifold. The intake is from Franks Pontiac Parts and is from a 1958 mill. The primary passage inlets are...
Update I have the four barrel intake in hand now for the 55. I debated on a period 4 barrel carb, but I will be opting for a modern four on the...
Update Worked a bit on timing, the old 55 engine likes 5 degrees of advance, the books says it would and the engine confirmed that. So with...
Update Working on the next video and some pics for here on redoing the weather stripping on the four door chariot. Its been an adventure really,...
Update Thanks @Rusty Heaps, will do, I'm trying to keep them coming at some sort of steady pace. Ive got a new video, it covers the brake...
Man i havent updated for a couple weeks! So far works bee really busy. I do have the weather stripping done on the drivers side. Need to do it...
Update Looking at some old episodes of MyClassicCar, I found SMS, a company in the next state over that does specific interior cloths, and I...
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