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Cant find the original one piston wheel cylinders for a 1963 f100 front drum. Is there a solution by using 64 or later wheel cylinders? The brake shoes have slots for both piston arms.

I'm working on friends f100. the front wheel cyls are shot they are the one piston style. Can not find them anywhere. Can I use the late 63 or 64 two piston cylinders and just come up with a second plunger (slotted arm)? Since the temperature dropped 50 degrees today and colder Wednesday all...

I bought this as backup for my A. Car is sold and now motor needs to leave. It is mounted on a rolling test stand with radiator everything goes. The carb and gen are not Ford but allow it to run. There is a bellhousing with pedals that goes with it. I have run it several times for over 30...

the owner is 85 and the car makes him happy. if the advance is what caused the problem I can disconnect the timing rod and tie down the dist lever so it doesn't happen again. the question is will about 1/3 of the travel on the advance lever be enough to cause a kick back?

I'm working on a friends car. he has had it for over a year, he has never used the timing lever always driving retarded. he only makes a mile trip to town so no highway driving. the car was used for a wedding sunday and numerous people were in the car, on Monday the motor kicked back and broke...

problem identified. the cup on the end of the brake lever wore out and put the brake rod in a bind enough to override the brake spring tension. the owner before me did a complete brake job everything is new under the drum. guess he never looked at that. now the search begins for the part. it...

went to move the A and felt as if something was dragging. left front brake wont release after pedal is applied. I can rotate the brake arm with a wrench and get it to release. the left side releases as soon as the pedal is released. its late and wont tear into it until tomorrow. there is a...

cut open the pump, whatever is inside is encased in epoxy, no way to tell what failed. will buy a better brand pump.

tom, nope its sealed. tried it again today can hear the rotors spinning but no suction. as long as the tank is full I can use gravity ( its still free) ive built a speedster pick up with a T ten gallon tank in the bed and somewhere below half tank its height levels off with the carb. im just...

ran my A out of gas today the electric pump ran for a min or so before I shut it off. tried cranking it for another min or so and again when I added gas. on troubleshooting no fuel to carb I pulled the pump checked the filter which was clean and bench checked the pump it makes the same noise it...

I need to have a test pipe made for my spare A motor. I have an old 8n exhaust manifold, can I take this to the muffler shop as I don't want to remove the A's manifold. if so I guess the pipe clamp is the same also. thks

if the motor cranks without dragging I would suspect the battery and grounds are good, the alt uses the same ground. disconnect any wires at the back of the alt and run a wire from the alt post to the pos battery post, it should charge once you rev'er up. theres nothing else in the one wire...

I just worked on a friends A. 12v neg ground one wire alt. it quit charging. checked all wiring and connections. the pos alt terminal should run to the pos post of the battery with 10 ga wire, at a little over 1000 rpm it should excite. we took the alt to napa and it tested good. hooked it back...

Sometimes things are clearer in the dark. was running the A in the garage when a storm blew up and knocked out he electric. im running a B distributor. I had never noticed before but there was a blue spark line running from the condenser case along the bracket to ground. the holding bracket is...

Does anyone know where I can find the three contact male connector to hook up a headlight? This is the end on the wiring harness. Got rid of my Dietz halogen lights and put back what Henry wanted.