Recent content by Hotrodster

Good news! It was getting down to just a few posts a day but needs to live.

Yep, looks like it's gone.

They don't need grease, that's the whole idea.

I've had some success with rubbing the number with a soapstone, then wipe it clean. The white soapstone will stay down in the stamped numbers.

You can but it's very risky. I've had two six volt batteries explode over the years while jump starting with 12 volts in an emergency. It seems to happen more when it's very cold, possibly the 6 volt batteries were frozen.

Jim, do you sand wet or dry?

I have a couple of 30-31 headlight buckets and grill shells that need to be polished up. The headlights especially have quite a bit of water staining (how can that be on stainless steel, lol). What products, equipment and techniques have you had success with on stainless? Thanks for any help.

When a Ford grill is used with one of those coupe bodies on a hot rod and placed on a Ford chassis, they look so much like a 32 5 window that 90% of people are fooled. They make a great looking car. Definitely worth saving.

If you're asking how the cabriolet body compares to the Ford built bodies like the coupe, there is one big difference and that is that the cabriolet was all framed up with wood, which can make one a real challenge to restore.

Has anybody tried it inside a gas tank? Sounds like the perfect thing for a gas tank that is a bit rusty, or is it impossible to clean out the loosened rust?

Drag racers get away with it because they only run 1/4 mile, I've seen it tried on street driven cars and it sucks all the oil right out of the engine. A friend tried it on a small block chevy and it sucked a quart of oil out about every 10 miles.

Just for information, the most common use years ago for the 00 Lithium grease was in the track rollers of crawler tractors. That's what it was developed for.

I have one Heco shock. It really seems like a nice operating shock absorber. Were they aftermarket or stock on some Fords? Or are they non-Ford? Any info appreciated. I'd sure like to find 3 more.

Even though it looks fairly decent compared to alot of the weird speedsters you see, I don't think it's worth a whole lot more than a running chassis. Looks like the body is wood, if so I wouldn't pay more than about $3,500 for it. If the body was all formed out of steel and nicely finished I...

In my real life, lol, I operate heavy equipment. I have some older equipment with no rollover protection, and some later machines with rollover protection. The rule of thumb is, on machines with no rollover structure, you never wear a seat belt because you will be strapped to the machine with...