Recent content by Lyndon

Over the last 20 or so years I found I wasn't driving my '42 much, and every so often I was finding stuck brakes on one side or the other or a gummed up master cylinder that would need to come out for rework. Lots of fun. I read somewhere that the same thing was happening with army trucks that...

Back in the eighties when I did mine, I spent an entire weekend stripping off the old running board rubber with a hammer and wood chisel. There are some good suggestions posted above for quicker, easier removal methods.

The leaves are only just barely changing yet here, but I thought this made a nice fall picture.

Be carefull with undersize rod bearing journals on a LB or earlier engine. I rebuilt my LB engine about 5 years ago, and had a terrible time locating replacement rod bearings. The rod bearing inserts on that engine are flanged (later flat head rod bearing inserts are not flanged), and even...

I did not know that about the original '36 sender unit. Yearsr ago I installed a repo sender unit connected to the original gauge, and the gauge continually hunts up and down as I am driving with no clear indication of how much gas is in the tank. Could this be the cause of it (newer style...

I noticed the same thing when I replaced most of the spring coils in my '42's front seat, there were at least 2 other coverings still in place under the latest one, including the original. From the look of the original in my '42, someone hauled a leaky oil-bath air filter on the passenger seat...

Could this be the problem with the gas gauge in my '36? The needle goes up and down and seems to hunt around the whole time while driving. Come to think of it, the oil pressure gauge does the same thing in unison with the rise and fall of the gas gauge needle, maybe my whole gauge cluster...

Like Karl said above, check for hidden damage. I had a parts car 36 Ford sedan that was damaged about the same as that on the same side, and the front axle was also bent back about 3/4 inch and had to be straightened. Really sad to see a survivor like that get into an accident, but its good...

I'm wondering if a water pump is failing on my '36 Ford 21 stud. I don't have very many miles since a complete rebuild a couple years ago, but tonight on the way home from supper I noticed the temp gauge rising while stopped at a light. It fell back down a bit between lights, but started going...

When it is idling, open the rad cap and look in. If you see a lot of bubbles or foaming in there you could have a leaking head gasket or possibly a crack in the block. I have a 8BA engine that did the same thing, head gasket was leaking exhaust gases into the water jacket.

I went with 2" all the way both sides and had a lot of fun getting everything in place without touching the frame anywhere or interfering with the radius rods. I'll see if I can find any pictures of it and post them.

I agree the picture looks like the Little Dearborn store in Minneapolis today.

I went through that project with mine a couple years ago, I know what you are going through with it. Stick with it, follow the instructions in the link above and you should be fine. The best piece of advice I followed was to install every bolt finger tight/loose and slowly tighten everything...

26 years this month for my '36, 24 years for the '42, and 11 years for the '21.

I had a similar experience with a flathead Chrysler 6 about 25 years ago. When changing a set of points, I had all 6 spark plugs out as well. The little lockwasher on the points hold down screw was missing when I went to put it back together. Looking at those 6 funnels on the top of the...