Recent content by joel rapose

I have installed many sleeves...you bore the block .125 over to accept the sleeve...the best way is to leave a ridge at the bottom 1/8 to 1/4" high...but if you bore using a hone type machine you can not leave the ridge (most modern shops only have hones) then I freeze the sleeve and heat the...

I am looking for the metal plate that goes on the floorboard just over the battery..the one I have is rusted out...I would like a good original plate for my 30/31 coupe. Thanks Joel

I Taught Auto Shop for 30 years...and for my money I will not mess with a battery that is not 100%....It is always going to fail when you are miles from home at midnight....spend the money and buy a good battery.

Not sure what you expect...but at above 70 ...air gets under the fenders and the car drifts in the wind...makes some scary driving... lhe tires you are looking at are for European sports cars and they indeed would look funny on your wheels......Goodyears or Firestones will easily run at those...

I have a whole pile of wheels stacked under my deck...and my wife says get rid of them.... I have 2 Model T stock (1927) wire wheels.. About 8 19" Model A wheels.. About 8 21" wheels One 17" wheel About 15 16" Ford Wheels 5 15" solid early Ford Wheels.. Some have tires on them... I...

I have four like new white wall Firestone tires mounted on 21" wheels with yellow paint..new tubes with liners..in excellent condition..all with less than a thousand miles on them....even come with hub caps...I just don't need them.. I don't want to ship them unless you can figure a way...

Gosh...Mr. Y-Blockhead....Please send me a PM and let me know where I can buy that Mitchell missing the driveline..... every time I have talked to Sue they have been super friendly and I am sure would be happy to make another one for me....I would love it... Joel

Back in the 60's I bought one of those GAZ engines from Ford Parts Obsolete ...When I had it rebuilt we found metric rings ... easier to just install new pistons and rings... The engines were NOS with 4 speed truck transmissions... I did not want the transmission..

Brent you hit it in the head....thanks... Paypal is in business to make money...just like any bank does... no different... I always download my account to my bank once loot is over a thousand... I don't like to have too much money hanging out there... not sure my bank is any more trustworthy...

And I also live in a Law and Order county.... yep, you try to hold up the grocery store and you'll get shot by 38 people..... everyone carries ....even little ole ladies with the snub nose 44's

Licensed ?? Inspected ?? In Kalifornia we don't bother to Inspect cars...once they have yer money they don't care what ya do....and Smog ?? I live in a Non-Smog county...yes there are those in Kalifornia...we don't have enough population to keep a Smog shop in business and are exempt from...

I also NEVER use Friends and Family....It is not honest...and it is a lie...no matter what, it is still a lie...and for 3 or 4% I won't be a part of it... not thrilled with folks that do that either...it is just wrong to lie. Little ones make big ones.

I love Paypal... I operate a small mail order business and sell antique motorcycle parts...some of which are quite expensive...so getting an $800 bad check could really hurt... I figure that using any sort of credit card will cost me at least 3% so if I use Paypal and pay 3.5 or 4% it is just...

You can buy paint mail order...and in Kalifornia where we can not buy lacquer paint to paint an entire car, you are allowed to buy lacquer to repair a part of a car that has been damaged that has a lacquer paint job. You may have to buy it in quarts but what the heck..it is a way around the law.

When I learned engine repair lots of years ago...we were taught how to knurl piston skirts...then we would undercut the ring grooves and install what was called "expanders" it really worked well...the knurling not only made the skirts expand but held oil in the skirt area... It was cheep and...