Recent content by joe 1950

good question, but I learned over the years. It’s the dipstick tube that determines the amount of oil by the length of the stick going down into the pan easy to overlook this done it myself.

try running it with the cap loose or off i’ve seen some engines do this and found it had a blown head gasket good luck

I agree with NEWC if you say you have no spark put a jumper wire from a good source to the coil stud I take it this engine still has a crab distributor down on the front of the engine if it starts then you need to trace the power source back to the ignition switch

Petehoovie thanks that’s exactly what I was looking for I have adjusted these brakes about 12 years ago when my buddy and I were restoring this 35 pick up they need to be adjusted again I remember the excentric and lock nut now I’ll be helping him this week just needed a little brain refresher...

it doesn’t have hydraulic brake adjusters just the wheel cylinders were installed but it still has the excentric adjustment screws and lock nuts

Fellow barners need some refresher advice on adjusting brakes on a 1935 ford truck half ton it’s been about 12 years since I’ve had to do this and my memory has lost some of its charm helping out a buddy of mine the system has been converted to hydraulic but the shoes and adjusters have all...

Good morning fellow gear heads i’m in need of some info on how to get in touch with Skip Hanney over the years i lost his contact info greatly appreciated

My 50 did almost the same thing what I found was generator was charging but not enough rebuild the generator and brought the voltage up to I believe it was @ 7 volts at 1500 rpm problem solved good luck

My little trick was to bust out the old defueser with a small doll and then I painted the new bulbs with a red krylon because my dash is red and turned out great still 6 volt

you put detergent in your washer when you clean your dirty shop clothes. ? ?

i’m going to have to read the article better before putting my two cents worth i didn’t read the part about offy heads sorry about that i’m 74 now and i think i had that same problem in grade school

i always run champion H- 10 in my 50 cpe 26 years and never had a problem with them good luck

the numbers are on the top of the case that bolts to the front housing right behind the adj. bolt i could see it on the one picture you sent but it was upside down and couldn’t get my pewter to lock in to see it but if you have it working by cleaning the terminal great easy fix

back in my day working for the cadillac dealer i rebuilt lots and lots of those alt.the amp number is stamped where the adj. bolt is it will read like 63 A. or 85 A and the other numbers will give you what your looking for hope this helps

when i worked for the local cadillac dealer we repaired pretty much all the small leaking gas tanks in shop we had a very large soldering iron it had a copper tip on it about 2 inches wide you would have to plug it in about 15 minutes before it got hot but we’d prep the tank and acid core solder...