The Jalopy Journal
Remember to use virgin sand or glass bead. Otherwise, you're just blasting rust into the metal and after a few days it will look all spotty!
Play sand is sanitized and has the cat shit removed so the little kids don't get to sick. It is not of a uniform size and that's what makes it...
WONDERFUL! If you dare take it past the end of the pavement you can help clean an outhouse next August. Think about a Volvo overdrive- I love...
Remember this is a "courtesy" of BLM and BNI. We are providing 6 out houses and a big trash bin. Please do not trash the area! Help us by picking...
You can run the line from the stock tank down the inside of the fire wall under the floor board to your fuel pump and back up and out the stock...
Yellow with red wires sounds like Tom Hines car. Restored by his kids and out of Colorado. Cover of Hot Rod April 1951 (I think) with 4 guys in...
Seth has friends??????????
Use original ones- get them rebuilt if you have to. The reproductions are not worth the $ and will fail quickly. Remember there are clockwise...
I use one of the combination battery box/ master cylinder mounts that Dave Wilton of M?T Products makes. Goes in the stock location and get to it...
See you on the salt!
They are not as smooth sounding as a sbc, but sound great to us dedicated banger guys. They can make lots of disturbing sounds. Get a wooded dowel...
ALCOHOL, no really! Go to your local hardware store, buy a can of alcohol. It's a great cleaner. Keep washing the wheel till the paper towels are...
I run 1 94 down draft and it works great. The big thing you should think about is getting a manifold with heat in it. A lot of them mount against...
Look for cracks around the steering box holes. Most frames have some sag in them or are a little out of square. That can be fixed will a little...
This is the body number. Letters tell you what plant the body was made in and the numbers are the serial number of the body only. Not on all bodies.
Exhaust pipe questions answered: The stock T (as would be used with the "Multi-Lifts" is on the right (passenger) side. The conversion to Rajo B...
I just got home from Bakersfield and the "Multi" car lives! Will be great fun work for Don and his boy. I hope they bring it back to Bonneville in...
The engine in Bob Anderson's car is a one off "Hodge" Multi's car was around the So Cal area for a while. The guy that had it didn't know what he...
I ran synthetic in mine. With the regular oil you could not touch the cover plate with syn. no problem.
The A frame will do just fine. I have a '25 touring body mounted on one. The stock front mounting bolts are at the edge of the frame and I just...
Make sure the center bolt of the spring is in the hole in the cross member. Tighten the u-bolt nuts evenly. I snug them up then rotate around,...
1800 to 2000 max for all day long down the road cruising. I wind my similar motor to a little over 3 (but never to 3500) when I race it. VDO makes...
The front of the tube needs to be higher than the back. The gears throw the oil out, end up running out of lube and get very $. I believe Vern...
I run 5 on the front of the "Stupid Car", but I'm a little lighter than you. Make sure your shocks and the rest of the front end is in top shape....
Looks like a narrowed Model AA truck shell to me
Looks great! You might want to look at the steering box mount before you paint the frame. I did the mount on my car the way you did and it cracked...
Early 32 rear axles have the spring mounted behind the axle- not on top like a Model A- same guts. The big thing about the strength of the axle is...
Don't try to rebuild these yourself! The pros get about $50 to do it and that's cheap $. About 1/3 are worn out and can not be rebuilt. For most...
My reply above pertains to the F150 trans
We have a guy up here that does this conversion. Trans. is very expensive, getting hard to find, and has a bad gear ratio spread between 2nd and...
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