Recent content by Jimbo

I've got a 50 F-1 and I'm trying to use the old gage's on 12 volt's.Tried the individual reducer's for each gage. They worked for a little while and then quit.Power to reducer, no pwer out. Then tried a new one Mac's advertised. Single reducer for all three gage's. Same thing happened, quit...

Well here it is. I finally got the front clip on. Pretty happy with the look, would like to get the rear end down A little bit and it's geared to low. Would like to be able to cruize highway speeds. But that's another project.

Ken, here are a couple of pictures. You can see in picture 2 where the draglink rubs the top of the steeriing arm when turning left. Any input would be great. I figure I need to bend the steering arm down to get draglink more parralel with the frame. But I dont have a torch so I'll have to get...

Well here it is. My 50 F-1, I've takin it for a few rides and it does pretty good. I need to get the steering arm bent down, the drag link is at a pretty funky angle got a little bit of bump steer. Other than that I get a lot of thumbs up. Cant wait to get the front clip on. This winter I'll...

My avatar is with just the springs. They said 3 in. lower than stock.Can't wait to get the front end on to see what it looks like.

Ken, actually there's the two leaf posie springs and the axle is a 3in.drop from Sid's. Probably 5 to 6 in. total drop. sid@droppedaxles.com

Well it's been a long time coming but I got to here the old girl pur today. She fired right up. Put A timming light on and made a couple adjustments, and she sounds great. A couple more things to button up,some wiring and bleed the brakes again and maybe I can take her for a short ride. I know...

Hey blucar I just read your post about a conversion of road draft tube to pcv. I'm interested, I've got a 1950 F-1 with a stock 8BA, if you or anyone out there in the BARN could give me a list of what I need to do this I would do it tomorrow. I'm not clear on the piece that goes in the block. My...

Thanks Ken, I'm just doing the engine compartment this go around.As for paint I went cheap , used black rustolium semi gloss.

Finally got her cleaned up and set back in frame.Time for a little plumbing and electrical work.

Hey Barners, changing the pan gasket on my 8BA, when ordering gaskets I forgot to get them for the round acsess panel. There were 2 , one inside and one outside . Will I be safe making these myself out of some thin gasket material? Or do I need to order them. Weathers geting nice and I'm really...

Heres my 50, hope to have it back together for spring.

This is a great tech article. Brakes, lowering,and T-5 to flathead.http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=320631&highlight=scott+in+missouri&showall=1

I'm having trouble finding a new pitman arm for my f-1. Tried Carpenter ,NPD, Mac's, and Early Ford Store. Nobody has them and sounds like won't have them any time soon. Anybody have any other ideas. Can a machine shop build the ball up on the old one? Thanks Jim

Here's mine.