Here's my 63 on an 85 Caprice frame. Hard to imagine but the wheel base and track width are PERFECT for the short wide. The mounting was pretty...
Don't know which part of the country you live in but we usually epoxy prime and then top coat with what the customer wants. Factory black is semi...
Another way to absolutely protect all the 6v stuff is to take the starter cable and the main feed wire off the starter, it is on the same terminal...
I was out of high school before I saw my first DIESEL train. They kept several old steam engines around for some years for plowing snow drifts....
Andy, run a wire from your left front signal wire through a diode and on to the indicator light. Now run a wire from your right front signal wire...
You can mount a weather resistant starter button (ask for a boat or tractor) to a bracket that's held by the tailhousing bolt(s). Have it placed...
A trick to eliminate door handle sag is to pull the handle and clamp the square end of the shaft in a vise. Heat until you can put enough twist in...
Darn, Nate, you made me go out at midnight in my slippers to snap a shot of the only pickup on the place with a "Do away with the paper" headliner...
The two well tuned carbs are a definite plus because an inline six has a terrible intake manifold layout. The air/fuel mix has to make FIVE ninety...
I wonder why 1/2 ton trucks kept getting bigger with each new design. The 37 is just shoulder to shoulder, the 46 leaves a little gap, the AD's...
Clashing by a whole inch the 3/4T steering box must be physically larger than a 1/2T? Someone will answer this right away but if not then the 265...
Guys, over half a century ago when I was a teen, who of course knew everything, I made fun of a very crude sprint car. The man for whom I worked...
Here is how we get them to have an acceptable fit. First we take off all the attaching hardware like hinges and latches. Next, the hood itself has...
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This will stop the running but you have another problem with the starter staying engaged. There are two small wires on the solenoid, the one...
Just happen to have a 48 up on the rack that is highly modified but the emergency brake is factory so ignore all the funny looking stuff around...
There is a site called Bow Tie Overdrives than has a table you plug your tire heigth and rear end ratio into and it prints out the speedo gears...
If for some reason the stem galled the guide you're stuck with major work but if it's just varnish then dribbling laquer thinner down the stem...
By the way, the 160mph speedometer did NOT come from the school bus.
Guess I really should say economical gauges. A customer brought a 54 in for us to repair damage from a wind storm blowing a car port down on it. I...
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