The Henry J had a strange driver today, I let my daughter's boyfriend drive it while I drove the 41 to Father's Day lunch. He and the car both did good, different type of car than he's used to driving, I told him to just pretend he's in his tail dragger with the nose up.... lol
3, count them, 3 Henry J's at the cruise night tonight ! All are members of the Gasser Gang of WNY and the cruise night feature cars were gassers and hot rods.
Do you have the specs on the middle one? I just got my 53 and I am working through some issues with the 134 but want to swap it.
New parts for Bad Moon, double adjustable shocks with a 130 lb spring to replace the single adjustable with unknown spring rate that seemed a bit stiff. Also got a new 4 way cutoff switch to hopefully fix the issue of the 2 way switch that wouldn't kill the car. The last thing was getting a full size crank pulley to replace the 25% under driven pulley I have on it, to speed up the waterpump at idle. Comparison of the 2 shocks Shocks installed Cutoff switch installed The crank pulley will have to wait, heat index is a thick 95 degrees today.
I dont know how much street this car sees vs track, but how do you find using rod ends on the shocks vs poly/rubber style ends? Any issue with those or the ladder bar rod ends, regarding harshness, banging, clunking, high wear, noisy, etc? The '60 Falcon gasser i'm putting back on the street has all rod ends on the rear suspension and shocks and i'm hoping that wasn't a bad mistake. it'll be a good while before she's a driver to find out. -rick
Are you running a telescoping wishbone track locator on those ladders or an X brace hiding in front of the pumpkin? -rick
I drive the car all over and I don't notice the solid rod ends, but I also didn't build the car to be a comfortable cushy mushy impersonator either. It's a legit street strip car that's void of any civil items. I run a diagonal link
Success ! The new 4 post battery cutoff switch cuts the car off, glad that's behind me. I couldn't figure it out back in 2011 so I cheated and put it on the negative side and nobody ever checked the actual routing, just if it killed the car or not. On the latest rebuild I wanted to get it right but it still didn't kill the car after I added the charging wire to the switch and adding a diode. I guess the moral of the story is you can't kill a car with an alternator using a 2 post switch.
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