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Mac's catalog shows door edge protectors for 30-31 roadster for $92.95 a pair, fasteners included. Obsolete and Classic Auto Parts shows door edge protectors for 89.95 a pair, fasteners included.

My experience with Mac's has been mixed. I ordered two U40 fasteners. These fasteners attach the side curtains to the body via the body sockets. They were out of production for a long time and I was really happy to find that Mac's had some. They sent me two packages of hog rings. The hog...

Mac's has repos of those fasteners. They are UF40 and there is a tool to install them. The tool is UF40T. The price for the UF40 is $8. I ordered one with the tool, but when I installed it, the little gizmos that pop out to grip the body socket fell out. I worked for over an hour but could...

I removed a seven tooth gear from a 29 roadster thru the engine compartment without removing the splash pan. I did by following the directions given in Les Andrews book with a modification. Les said to remove the steering wheel, floorboards, and starter. I also removed the horn. In the...

How do you decide when to drop the pan and take up the mains? I have looked at a lot of threads about how to take up the mains, but nothing about when it should be done.

I had a similar problem with my 29 roadster. My car had the gap on the drivers side. I shimmed the right side of the radiator with some fender washers. That moved the forward hinge to the left. In addition, the holes for the rear hinge are slotted so I moved it as far to the right as it...

I have the Lucas Hub Oil in my car. I am well satisfied with it. It shifts easily on the upshift and downshift. The ****** is pretty stiff at first on cold days but it will shift ok if I shift at a lower speed. After a mile it warms up and shifts easily again.

Check that the throttle fully opens when floorboarded. The arm on the firewall that pushes the throttle open was bent on my car. It ran just fine, but had no power when climbing a hill.

Thanks guys that is what I wanted to know.

I remember reading a post that the bell housing had to be removed so the clutch/brake pedal shaft could be removed from inside out of the bell housing. I just wondered if anyone has been able to remove the shaft without removing the bell housing? I put new bushings in the pedals, but the...

If you expand the photo you can see that Randy's problem is that the part of the light switch that fits up into the steering gear and mates with the spider on the end of the horn rod is stuck on the end of rod and spider. He has to remove it before he can even get to the spider. This should...

I decided to go with the tube, but then found it was too large for the steering shaft. I had a local machinist bore out the shaft to fit the tube. I bored out the rubber gasket so it would fit over the tube and had no trouble screwing the tube with the gasket into the bushing housing. I have...

The Continental engine that I described was a C145, the predecessor of the O300. This is a low compression engine with a fixed pitch propeller. The failure occured in the late 1970s when we routinely ran our engines full rich and it was running on avgas approved for that category of engine...

I have an airplane with a Continental engine. It developed a dead miss while in flight and blew out all but 2 qts from an 8 qt sump. The problem was that the ring gaps were aligned. The piston has 3 rings above the pin and one oil ring around the skirt. The hot gases blowing through the gaps...

I measured the rubber bumpers from the edge of the panel to the center of the bumper. I didn't want to pry the bumpers from the panel. By the edge of the panel I mean from the edge of the opening for the trunk or rumble seat lid. I did not include the water channel. The forward bumpers are 7...