Recent content by Houdini

Rocket1, Like the idea of using an old wheel as a hose holder. Could even use it without cutting it. Thanks for the idea. NoboD, you must have a lot of junk wheels to keep replacing them, when they disappear.

Have an extra wheel or two and wondering where you might store them, yet make them functional in the meantime. How about a stool. I decided to make a stool for my shop with the stamped steel tractor seat I got at a flea market, and came up with using my very cracked extra 19" wheel as part...

I was looking to paint my wheels the light yellow look that they call Tacoma Wheat in later years and earlier called Straw (I think), but it is a light yellow and not the off white that your picture shows. I did a bunch of looking and trying and then found a perfect match for what looked to be...

If it helps, I ended up painting mine with Rustoleum Painter's choice 2X. I tried several colors trying to get as close to the Straw that is on the yellow side. We didn't find the almond to be what we wanted. I found what worked very well as a match to other club members that had that color...

I had posted a similar problem I was having. I had used Prestone anitfreeze without any problem but then found my water pump needed replacement. After I replaced the water pump with a new one, I found the Prestone antifreeze was pushing out the overflow tube when the rpm was above idle and it...

I also didn't realize how many buildings are in this same area. I thought there were some other car museums in the general area, but this is like Disneyland for some of us. I see marked on the diagram, a "main entrance" by building A. Is there a one price ticket to visit all the museums, or...

Melsmodel A above is Randy Gross. I bought one to replace my 2 tooth 31 Ford and it did go in without any problems. It fits without any modification. And used the same light and horn rod. I find mine steers a bit earlier, but more importantly, no more play in the wheel. I decided to go the...

I went to the swap meet as planned this weekend, but only saw one 19 inch wheel. It looked very nice, all cleaned up and sand blasted etc. No cracks that I could see. Some spokes were bent though. I used the jig I made to check run out between the hub and rim and found it was too out of align...

Lots of great tips here. Thank you. I actually have two bad wheels (in my opinion). Originally, out of the 5 wheels I had, 3 were bad. That left me with 2 reasonably good ones. A club member was nice enough to give me a spare he had, which is my best wheel, no cracks and runs true. That left...

Thanks for all the responses so quickly. I agree, that I don't want more than 1/8 round-out, preferably less. The jig that 2manycars has is just the ticket, but I don't have a way to make that. I'm thinking of laying a short piece of 2 x 2 steel across the inside hub and then measure with a...

I need to find a good replacement 19 inch wheel and will be going to a local swap meet this coming weekend. I can certainly look carefully at wheels to see if there are cracks and worn lug bolt holes, but I'm trying to figure out a simple way, or jig I can make to check to see if the wheel will...

I was about to ask a question on type of gasket for valve cover, when I found this new thread. I see some vendors offer a choice of paper or cork gasket. Bratton only seems to offer paper. What do you recommend. Is paper original. I would prefer a gasket type that is less leak prone.

I thought I would add a few comments to the above experience. Randy provided instructions and a few suggestions that differed from Les Andrews book. Those were helpful and made installation easier, like pulling it out from the passenger side and just disconnecting the pitman arm from the box...

I wanted to share my experience with my recent purchase of the F100 Steering box that I purchased from Randy Gross. I've had the car for a little over two years and when I got it the steering was terrible and wandered so much that I felt it was unsafe. I did several things, like new steering...

Thanks for all your help. I was able to visit one of our club members who had an extra float valve and gaskets. I didn't see anything in the old float valve, but that was likely the problem, it wasn't closing off the fuel flow as it should. After I cleaned everything up and installed the new...