Recent content by SwampLedge

Thank you, Terry. I was able to view it just fine from my iPad.

I have that option too.:) But it means that I’m squatting down when I’m working. On the lift, I can position the axle at a comfortable height to work standing up. On top of that, it’s good to run the engine a little bit. I’m always amazed at how quickly it starts, regardless of how long it’s...

As we age, having a 4 post is easier on the body, because you don’t have to get down on the floor to position the 4 lift arms, straining the shoulder, back, knee, and other muscles/joints. If I want to pull a drum, I drive on the lift, raise the lift, position my bridge jack, raise the car...

I am a hobbyist. I do not feel “expert” enough to sell my upholstery skills. But I got great satisfaction from doing my own. The nice thing about doing your own upholstery is that, for the cost of materials and your time, you can learn to do it, and do it over again if you don’t like how it...

There are many ways to enjoy the cars we love. Some people strive to recreate them as they left the factory, often resulting in a product more perfect than actually left the factory. I find this approach too confining, and prefer to see the starting point as a blank canvas to be transformed into...

About 30 minutes in, Andy’s character starts up the pickup to leave the cemetery with Doc, and it sounds like an “A.” Fun dialogue in that scene when she asks him why he keeps the old truck and he says he’s fixing it up cause it’ll be worth big money. Good authenticity there to explain what I...

I see that the replacement shafts the vendors sell have a separate woodruff key, while the one I disassembled on my “A” has the key upset into the shaft. Curious if this is the way it was done in the OEM days.

Did you get the installation instructions? https://www.snydersantiqueauto.com/content/Snyders/Product_PDFs/A-8600-A%20ALUMINUM%20FAN.pdf

Because my ‘28 RPU is an early one with the left hand brake, the wood block is not continuous. This may have helped me with door alignment, because I have, IIRC, three rubber pads under the rear two carriage bolts, and only one pad under the front bolt. I have not yet begun to figure out how my...

I have lived my entire life in New England, yet never considered Boston to be at all representative of New England. Instead, I think of small towns in Connecticut, central and western Massachusetts, Vermont, NH, and Maine, with the jewels being Cape Cod, the Berkshires, the Green and White...

When I considered the cost of parts to rebuild the 7 tooth on my ‘28, I opted to install a Randy Gross F100 conversion. I’m glad I did, for the quality of the box he supplied, the pleasure of dealing with Randy, and the steering feel after conversion.

I think there’s something special about a Model A. Several years ago, I purchased my father-in-law’s prized 1930 Chevrolet two door from my sister-in-law, about 16 years after he passed. The car was in great original condition, but hadn’t been driven in over 12 years. I squared away a few issues...

I installed the 31 style column support in my ‘28 just a couple of days ago. Thank you, Tom, for the excellent write-up. I worried (probably needlessly) that I may have difficulties someday removing it because countersinking the adaptor would leave me with no good way to keep the screws from...

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At 18 I was beginning my sophomore year of engineering school, with the dream of designing race car suspensions. I was told that to learn that I should get a job with one of the big 3 automakers after graduating. Moving to Michigan wasn’t something I wanted to do, primarily because of too many...