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| Something new with dropped axle front ends---
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Here's a new one on me---I haven't seen that done before, and I've seen a lot!!! This is the trap that a lot of people fall into when they add a dropped axle into a stock front end set up. The damn tie rod wants to run right thru the side of the wishbone. |
| 12/12/2007 03:39 AM |
Builder's Corner |
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| Well of course you knew what a crush tube was! Didn't you???
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Since somebody asked---If you have to bolt through a peice of rectangular tubing to attach a bracket, etcetera to it, as you tighten up the bolt, the wall of the rectangular tube will begin to collapse. You want to tighten the bolt good, but not wreck the |
| 12/09/2007 07:45 PM |
General Discussions |
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| How to put a Chev V8 into any car---
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My apologies to all the Ford and Chryco guys out there. I am a Chevy guy, so I am writing about Chevy engines---Not because they are better, but because thats what I have experience with. The easy way is to find somebody else that has the same car/engine |
| 12/07/2007 10:55 PM |
General Discussions |
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| A mini rant about the metric system---from Canada
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Ah, yes--the good old metric system!!! When I started in engineering in 1965 everything was British Imperial---Feet, inches, and pounds. I worked along, quite happily, measuring everything in sixteenths, thirty seconds, and thousanthths of an inch. Then i |
| 11/30/2007 08:56 PM |
General Discussions |
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| Wanted : Original1928 OR '29 Model A front fender braces
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I am planning on some winter upgrades to the Wild Canary. The main one will be a cosmetic upgrade to the headlight bar. The current one is a Henry original, from the Barrie hotrod fleamarket. It sets level, but one end has more bend in it than the other, |
| 10/23/2007 02:41 AM |
General Discussions |
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| Back from 600 mile cruise--
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I just got back from a marathon 600 mile run with the "Wild Canary". I have a friend who lives up near Perth, Ontario, about 1 hour from our nations capital, in Ottawa. I finished up a small design job on Wednesday, and since I didn't anticipate any more |
| 09/02/2007 07:13 AM |
General Discussions |
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| Old Ford/New Ford--76 years difference---
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Wifey sent me out for catfood and water softner salt this morning, and when I got home I parked in the driveway instead of in the garage. As I walked into the house, it struck me that this was a good photo op. You all know the "Wild Canary", my 31 Ford Ho |
| 07/09/2007 07:08 PM |
General Discussions |
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| Wild Canary down---Crappy aftermarket parts---
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Last week I was at the local Saturday night "cruise-night/car show", and about half way thru the evening, the rodder next to me pointed out a big greenish puddle under the Canary, and said "Hey--Is that out of your car?". I got down and crawled around---n |
| 06/11/2007 08:09 AM |
General Discussions |
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| Hey America---Thanks for a good time---
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We just arrived home last night from our vacation in the U.S.A.. Had a really great time. We travelled thru the "gold rush country" between Reno Nevada and Sacramento in California, and seen some working and restored gold mining operations (really neat ol |
| 05/25/2007 10:44 AM |
Q&A |
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| Ron Francis Taillights Question - CORRECTED
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When I was building the roadster pickup, I used a set of Ron Francis repop 51 Pontiac tail lights. The lenses and chrome housings are quality stuff, but the bulb sockets that come with them really suck, big time. The contacts that are in the housings have |
| 05/12/2007 06:51 AM |
Q&A |
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| Wanted 1928 or 1929 model A ford rear bumper
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Every time I stop with the roadster pickup, the traffic behind me looks like it is preparing to mount the back of my truck!!! This is kinda disconcerting, to say the least. If anybody out there has a complete 1928-1929 model A rear bumper, with good chro |
| 04/26/2007 08:10 AM |
General Discussions |
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| Touchin' up paint---
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I drive my hotrod. Being as I live up here in the frozen a$$ed North, I have to pack 12 months worth of driving into about 6 months. I go to a lot of summer rod runs and "show and shines", and one thing I've noticed---It doesn't matter how clean, shiny, a |
| 04/23/2007 05:46 PM |
General Discussions |
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| Spring is here---Seen my first Canary today!!!
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Wild Canary, that is.--I had about 8 hours work fabricating switch brackets and running wiring today, for the linear actuator that opens my tonneau cover, and just finished. Had my maiden voyage for this year down to the gas station-(gasp) Actually it onl |
| 04/19/2007 02:22 PM |
General Discussions |
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| Its anti-freeze time
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Probably this is something that you guys in the southern USA don't have to worry about, but its a fact of life here in Ontario and the northern States. The temperatures are just now beginning to dip below freezing at night, and its going to get a lot wors |
| 04/16/2007 11:42 PM |
Q&A |
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| The one that got away
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Rodders may find this of interest. Back in the day, about 1965 (I was 19) I had a burning desire to build a hotrod. I had no money, no garage, no tools, and damn little money. But Hey!!! That never stopped us, did it. I picked up someone elses semi comple |
| 04/14/2007 08:39 PM |
General Discussions |
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| complaints about new site
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Okay---Maybe its because I'm old and miserable---but---The font of the print is too small to read comfortably. This is made even worse by the coloured background behind the printing. The avatars look all squashed and out of proportion.---Brian |
| 03/03/2007 09:09 AM |
General Discussions |
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| Building a side hinged tonneau cover.
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Its a cold, wet, nasty Sunday afternoon, and I'm setting around in my office playing with ideas for the design of a hinged tonneau cover for the bed of my 31 roadster pickup. I want to use a peice of 3/4" plywood and a light la |
| 02/22/2007 08:46 PM |
Q&A |
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| Paint estimate for roadster pickup
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Today I went to the local PPG dealer, to try and work up some kind of comprehensive quote for paint for the roadster pickup. I will be painting it myself, so needed to price out material. Normally, to paint a full size sedan with acrilic enamel, I always |
| 02/22/2007 01:27 AM |
Q&A |
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| What does the junction block end of flexible brakeline bolt to on S10 rearend?
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Yeah, I know, kind of a dumb question, but there is a flange around the rearend cover that sort of precludes using one of the cover bolts. I picked up a new flex line this morning to run from the frame crossmember down to the rearend, and there doesn't se |
| 02/11/2007 02:03 AM |
Q&A |
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| Email notification of thread activity
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I am not getting notified if someone posts in a thread I have started. How do I fix that??? Brian |
| 01/27/2007 08:55 AM |
Q&A |
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